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Only Virat Kohli could hit two sixes off my ball, his class is different, says Pakistani bowler Haris Rauf
Everyone will remember the historic match between India and Pakistan during the T20 World Cup 2022. The match was a win-win match till the last ball but Virat Kohli’s brilliant innings turned the game in India’s favor when Pakistan’s star player Haris Rauf was about to bowl. Pakistan’s star bowler Haris Rauf believes no one in world cricket can play that shot off his bowling except Virat Kohli for those two sixes in India’s thrilling win against Pakistan in a T20 World Cup match in October. could. Virat Kohli is a player of a different level, so I did not feel bad. If Rishabh Panth or Hardik Pandya had hit that ball for a six, then I would have wondered and worried about what was lacking in my ball. Only Virat has the power to hit that ball for a six. Haris Rauf said this about Virat Kohli when he was asked whether he felt bad when Pakistan lost a winning match in the World Cup and Virat Kohli hit match-winning sixes off your ball.
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Star bowler Haris Rauf, speaking to a Pakistani website for the first time about those two hits, said that if Hardik Pandya or Dinesh Karthik had hit him like that, he would have felt ‘hurt’. Kohli’s unbeaten 83 off 52 balls, regarded as one of the greatest T20 innings, helped India beat arch-rivals Pakistan by four wickets. He said, ‘He (Virat Kohli) was class and the kind of shots he plays, and the two sixes he hit, I don’t think any other player can hit those shots. I would have felt bad if Dinesh Karthik or Hardik Pandya had hit me like that but he was Kohli and he is a player of a different class. I didn’t know he (Kohli) could hit me down the ground to such lengths. So when he hit my ball for a six, it was showing his class. My planning and execution was fine but that shot was brilliant.
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Rauf said, look, India needed 31 runs in the last 12 balls. I gave only three runs in four balls. I knew Nawaz was bowling the last over, he is a spinner and I tried to leave at least four big boundaries and at least 20 plus runs for him.
