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Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir came out with huge praises for the Indian star batter Virat Kohli after he scored a match-winning 84-run knock against Australia in the first semi-final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
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After India lost two early wickets for 43 runs, Kohli and Shreyas Iyer teamed up to put the team in a decent position before the duo lost their wickets. With this win, India advanced to the final, with the winner from NZ and SA being their opposition in the grand finale.
"He is a phenomenal one-day cricketer. He knows how to plan his runs, he knows how to plan, whether he is batting first or chasing and he knows that he adapts to the conditions really quickly and that is why experience and high-quality players are very important and it is the reason why he has got that kind of record in one day cricket and I hope he continues to do that in the future as well,” Gautam Gambhir stated in the post-match press conference.
On Virat's recent vulnerability to leg-spinners exposed during ODIs against Sri Lanka and England before the Champions Trophy, Gambhir defended Virat, saying that if one plays 300 ODIs for India, he will get out to some spinners, and it is okay.
Furthermore, Gambhir opened up on Kohli’s recent poor outings against leg-spinners during ODIs against Sri Lanka and England. He has come out all guns blazing to defend the No.3 batter.
"I think he has got a hundred in this competition, he has got a ninety (eighty) in this competition and eventually, when you have got runs in this competition, you will eventually get out to some kind of a bowler. So rather than dissecting and bisecting that he has got out to leg spin and then when you have played 300 ODIs, you will eventually get out to certain kinds of bowlers and that is okay," he went on to state.
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