Ian Bishop might be the best commentator rn, be it ball knowledge, calling out the high pressure moments or those edge of the seat thrillers, explaining the technicalities of the game, his enthusiasm towards introducing every youngster, asking all relevant, no-nonsense questions in the post match presentation, he's good at everything.
That post-match interview was so good b/w Ian Bishop and Virat Kohli
Thanks to Ian Bishop for making that interview special and thanks to Virat for the way he spoke...
That was as pure as it can get ❤️
#IPL2026#RCB
Stats chods can never explain why this team plays sane when Kohli plays 30+ balls and when he gets our early they play like they never held a bat before
There were around 68 test matches in Virat Kohli's test career, that had a batting average < 30. Majority due to the playing conditions, and a very few of them can be attributed to the opponent's batting. Now 68 of 123 tests, means almost 55 percent of tests being low scoring. Here are a few notable innings of Virat in these tests:
44 & 75 at the WACA, 2012, the match average was 23.36
149 & 51 at Birmingham, 2018, the match average was 22.57
46 & 58 at Southampton, 2018, the match average was 24.35
153 at Centurion, 2018, the match average was 26.27
54 & 41 at Johannesburg, 2018, the match average was 20.12
38 & 76 at Centurion, 2023, the match average was 27.03
123 at Perth, 2018, the match average was 24.8
79 at Cape Town, 2022, the match average was 25.54
167 & 81 at Vizag, 2016, the match average was 26.8
104 at Eden Gardens, 2017, the match average was 25.51
74 at Adelaide, 2020, the match average was 18.19
The last 5 years, for a batsman of his calibre were underwhelming, but surely he has enough highs in red ball cricket to celebrate.
You can share this if you feel like, tried highlighting some of his best career knocks.
In the past 28 years every single test series comprising of 3 or more matches has had either 0 or multiple centurions.
This was the only instance where only one century across the whole 3 match series from both sides.
Once in a generation knock as literally as it could get
Lowest total in IPL belongs to RCB but...
RCB is the only team to bowl out teams under 60 twice
Only team to bowl out teams under 75 thrice
And only team to bowl out teams under 95 8 times.