Virat Kohli was trolled fiercely on social media after the match between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2023. Kohli could not do anything special in this match and his team had to face defeat by eight runs. Chasing a big score, Virat returned to the pavilion after scoring just six runs. Soon after that he went to the management room and started having dinner.
The picture of Virat sitting on a chair having dinner went viral on social media. After this, he was trolled fiercely. Critics said that Virat always fails in big matches. At the same time, a user commented on his photo and wrote that now he understood why Virat got out early.
In this match, Chennai performed brilliantly while batting first and scored 226 runs for six wickets. After the early dismissal of Rituraj Gaikwad, Devon Conway (83 runs) and Ajinkya Rahane (37 runs) handled the Chennai innings. After this, Shivam Dubey's innings of 52 runs took the team to 200 runs. In the end, the team reached 226 runs with the contribution of Moeen Ali and Rayudu. All the bowlers took one wicket each for RCB. However, apart from Siraj, the economy rate of any bowler was not less than 10.
Chasing 227, RCB got off to a very poor start. Virat Kohli was dismissed for six runs and Mahipal Lomror was without opening the account. After this, captain Faf Duplessis made his team return to the match by sharing a 126-run partnership in 61 balls with Glenn Maxwell. However, Maxwell was dismissed for 76 in the 13th over and Duplessis returned to the pavilion in the very next over after scoring 62 runs. With the dismissal of these two, the Chennai team came back into the match. Dinesh Karthik tried to win his team by scoring 28 runs in 14 balls, but he was also dismissed in the 17th over. In the end, RCB's team could only manage 218 runs losing eight wickets and losing the match by eight runs.
