WATCH: Virat Kohli hits Rohit Sharma at the non-striker's end, video goes viral

India and Pakistan are playing against each other in the much-anticipated encounter of the Asia Cup 2022. Both teams are playing first time since the last clash in the T20 World Cup 2021. In that match, Pakistan defeated the Indians by a massive margin of 10 wickets. The Indian team is currently chasing the target of 148 runs posted by the Pakistani team.

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Former Indian skipper and senior batter Virat Kohli has produced a fine knock for the team as he scored 35 runs off 34 balls with three boundaries and a six to his name. Apart from his batting, Kohli has made it to the headlines of social media for another reason.

Virat Kohli played a shot that went on to hit the Indian skipper Rohit Sharma who was there on the non-strike end. The video of this incident went viral over social media as it was something that nobody has expected.

Here’s the video:

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Rohit hit by Virat



Rohit not scoring..so Virat Kohli giving him what Rohit deserves#INDvsPAK #IndiaVsPakistan #kohli #RohitSharma #kingkohli pic.twitter.com/1hFshssj1l

— Manish (@_manny_23) August 28, 2022

India in a run chase of the target of 148 runs posted by Pakistan

Speaking of the match, the Pakistani team managed to post a total of 147 runs for the loss of all wickets in the 19.5 Overs. Star batter Mohammad Rizwan ended up as the highest-run scorer in the Inning as he played a knock of 43 runs off 42 balls with four boundaries and a six to his name. Other than him, middle-order batter Iftikhar Ahmed scored crucial 28 runs off 22 balls.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar came up as the highest wicket-taker for India with four wickets by conceding just 26 runs in his quota of four overs. Apart from that, star all-rounder Hardik Pandya also claimed three scalps alongside two wickets of Arshdeep Singh and one wicket of Avesh Khan.

While chasing the target, the Indian team scored 113 runs for the loss of four wickets. Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik Pandya are there in the middle with individual scores of 22 and 14 runs respectively. India now needs 35 runs in the 20 balls.