{"id":261788,"date":"2022-05-21T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=261788"},"modified":"2022-05-21T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T03:49:00","slug":"kohli-knock-keeps-bangalores-ipl-playoff-hopes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/kohli-knock-keeps-bangalores-ipl-playoff-hopes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Kohli knock keeps Bangalore\u2019s IPL playoff hopes alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEW DELHI<br \/>\nVirat Kohli rediscovered his scoring touch to smash 73 off 54 balls and lead Royal Challengers Bangalore to an eight-wicket win over table toppers Gujarat Titans on Thursday, keeping his side\u2019s playoff hopes alive.<br \/>\nSet a target of 169 to win their final league game, Kohli opened the innings again and smashed eight fours and two sixes to give Bangalore a platform to chase down the total and move up to fourth place.<br \/>\nKohli has had a poor season by his standards, which includes three ducks in the tournament. The knock was only his second fifty in 14 IPL innings, even as he crossed the 7,000-run mark for the franchise.<br \/>\n\u201cI was disappointed that I haven\u2019t done much for my team and that is what bothers me.<br \/>\nToday was a game where I was able to create an impact for the team,\u201d said Kohli.<br \/>\n\u201cI have worked really hard. Before this game, I batted non-stop in the nets for 90 minutes. I came in very free and relaxed.\u201d<br \/>\nBangalore must wait as Delhi Capitals, who have a better net run rate, could move level on points and reclaim fourth spot if they beat bottom side Mumbai Indians in their final game on Saturday.<br \/>\nGujarat and second-placed Lucknow Super Giants have qualified for the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI Virat Kohli rediscovered his scoring touch to smash 73 off 54 balls and lead Royal Challengers Bangalore to an eight-wicket win over table toppers Gujarat Titans on Thursday, keeping his side\u2019s playoff hopes alive. Set a target of 169 to win their final league game, Kohli opened the innings again and smashed eight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-261788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kohli knock keeps Bangalore\u2019s IPL playoff hopes alive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/kohli-knock-keeps-bangalores-ipl-playoff-hopes-alive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kohli knock keeps Bangalore\u2019s IPL playoff hopes alive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NEW DELHI Virat Kohli rediscovered his scoring touch to smash 73 off 54 balls and lead Royal Challengers Bangalore to an eight-wicket win over table toppers Gujarat Titans on Thursday, keeping his side\u2019s playoff hopes alive. 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