The Asia Cup 2023 has kickstarted and the India vs Pakistan tie is just one day away. Of all the things around this iconic clash, one remains constant - Virat Kohli. (More Cricket News)
The star batter loves scoring against the Men In Green. Kohli has scored 536 runs in 13 innings against Pakistan with an average of 48.23. In T20Is, he has 488 runs from 10 innings at an average of 81.33.
Kohli's finest games have come against Pakistan - 183 not out in 2012 Asia Cup & 82 unbeaten at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the 2022 T20 World Cup. Chasing a formidable 160, India were reeling at 31/4 when Kohli decided to change the fortunes of the game in his side's favour.
As India and Pakistan clash this Saturday for the first time since the Melbourne game, all-rounder Shadab Khan opened about 'that' innings from Kohli.
India needed 28 off eight deliveries when Kohli smashed consecutive sixes of Haris Rauf as the Men In Blue won the game in the final over. Shadab, while recalling the game from last October, said that only Kohli could play such knocks at will and produce match-winning innings.
"He is a world class player, definitely. You have to plan a lot to face him. Anyway, in international cricket, there are a lot of mind games, because you definitely have the skill to reach that level. But how you read each other's minds, the bowler and the batter, how they read each other's minds, and it also depends on what the situation is," Shadab said on the Star Sports show 'Follow the Blues'.
"The kind of batsman that Virat Kohli is, the way he has performed against us, even in the last match at the World Cup, I don't think that if any other batsman in the world was in that situation, could have done that to our bowling line-up. And the beauty of it is that he can do this at any stage and at any time."
