‌IPL 2025 | Twitter and Eden Gardens erupts as Kohli matches Salt’s blitz with carbon copy sixes

Eyeing to stamp authority in the two-month-long tourney, RCB’s ploy to field first against KKR seemed to work well when Josh Hazlewood outwitted Quinton de Kock in the first over. Unfettered by the blow, Sunil Narine and Ajinkya Rahane’s scintillating 103-run second-wicket partnership steered KKR to 107/2 at the halfway mark before RCB pulled their socks in the second half and curbed them to 173 runs. Matching their bowling intensity with batting brilliance, RCB openers teed off the opposition bowlers with Kohli’s back-to-back sixes being the prime highlight. 

Having gathered 58 runs from four overs, Kohli took down Spencer Johnson on the first couple of balls in the over. The left-arm pacer came over the wicket and bowled fuller ones outside the stumps and Kohli smoked it down the ground fine of long off. The fact that he used the bottom hand to great effectiveness added charisma to those strokes that mirrored one another, sparking Twitterverse buzz.

 Beauty

Peak

Too good

Undisputed 

B2B

Superb

Bang bang

Bashed

Biggies

Unbelievable!