Internet desk. Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar immediately condemned Virat Kohli’s dangerous and unacceptable act during the final of the IPL 2025 between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Punjab Kings (PBKs) at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The RCB was lagging behind the game to bat first as it was difficult to set up the boundary and inspired Kohli to score two and three runs quickly. In the 12th over of RCB’s innings thrown by Yuzvendra Chahal, Kohli ran to take a fast double run off the fifth ball. The right-handed batsman sent the ball out of the long-on fielder and immediately asked for two runs. Throw came towards non-strayer and where Liam Livingstone diverted and made his place comfortably.

Questions raised on umpiring

However, Sunil Gavaskar, who was on air at that time, immediately saw Kohli running directly on the pitch. Then he reprimanded the umpires for not reprimanding the former RCB captain for a dangerous act, which could change the position of the pitch in the second innings and the distance of 22 yards could be worse when Punjab came to the top. Gavaskar on Air said that Kohli runs fast between wickets. As soon as he hit the ball, he came to know that it is two. He said two running on the pitch directly. No umpire will ever tell them. He is running again on the pitch. Punjab Kings are batting at number two.

Kohli’s strike rate waged a debate

In the final of IPL 2025 against Punjab Kings, Virat Kohli’s approach sparked a big debate. The batsman tried to rotate the strike instead of setting up a big hit. During his tenure at the English broadcast, former Australian opener Matthew Hayden criticized the approach, saying that Kohli should try to score a big score as a score of 200 is an equal score on the surface of Ahmedabad. Kohli was finally dismissed by Afghan fast bowler Ajmatullah Umarjai in the 15th over. The right -handed batsman returned to the dugout by scoring 43 runs off 35 balls.

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