{"id":503391,"date":"2026-03-30T12:14:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503391\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:14:25","slug":"virat-kohli-was-over-mohammad-kaifs-post-after-rcb-win-goes-viral-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/503391\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Virat Kohli was over&#8217;: Mohammad Kaif&#8217;s post after RCB win goes viral | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/virat-kohli-and-mohammad-kaif-ipl-photo.jpg\" alt=\"'Virat Kohli was over': Mohammad Kaif's post after RCB win goes viral\" title=\"Virat Kohli and Mohammad Kaif (IPL Photo) \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Virat Kohli and Mohammad Kaif (IPL Photo)  NEW DELHI: Two years after retiring from international T20 cricket, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virat Kohli<\/a> continues to prove he\u2019s far from \u201cfinished\u201d in the shortest format of the game. In the IPL 2026 opener against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday, he smashed an unbeaten 69 off 38 balls for Royal Challengers Bengaluru, leading his team to a dominant win.   <\/p>\n<p> Watch<\/p>\n<p> Greenstone Lobo predicts IPL 2026 winner His recent form has been outstanding, with consistently high scores in white-ball cricket, leaving critics with little to say.<\/p>\n<p>Kaif\u2019s post sparks debate<\/p>\n<p>After the match, former cricketer <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mohammad-kaif\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammad Kaif<\/a> shared a post defending Kohli and reminding fans of his strong performances. Expressing his view on X, he wrote, &#8220;Imagine, after two ducks in Australia, they said Virat Kohli was over. His last 10 scores in white-ball cricket are: 74, 135, 102, 65, 131, 77, 93, 23, 124, and 69 n.o in this match.&#8221;While the message praised Kohli, many fans questioned its timing. They felt there was no need to defend him now since he has been performing consistently. Some also pointed out that earlier criticism was mostly about his struggles in Test cricket, not limited-overs formats.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli keeps scripting records<\/p>\n<p>Kohli also reached major milestones during the game. He became the first player in <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IPL<\/a> history to score 4000 runs in chases and moved past Shoaib Malik in T20 run charts. He scored his 64th IPL fifty and finished the match in style.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>Do you believe Kohli has overcome his earlier struggles in cricket?<\/p>\n<p> Alongside him, Devdutt Padikkal played a quick knock as RCB chased down 203 in just 15.4 overs, boosting their net run rate early in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli and Mohammad Kaif (IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: Two years after retiring from international T20 cricket, Virat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[176642,1721,16326,17779,17774,16325,24790,47712,101,17775,24788,56,54,55,15624],"class_list":["post-503391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-chasing-records","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-ipl","tag-ipl-2026","tag-mohammad-kaif","tag-rcb","tag-royal-challengers-bengaluru","tag-sports","tag-sunrisers-hyderabad","tag-t20-cricket","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-virat-kohli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}