'Virat Kohli Upgraded His Software': RCB Batting Star Hailed For 'Radical Change'

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Last Updated:May 28, 2025, 15:33 IST

Aakash Chopra says erstwhile RCB skipper Virat Kohli has upgraded his crippled against the legspinners.

Virat Kohli has scored 602 runs from 13 innings truthful acold this IPL. (BCCI Photo)

Aakash Chopra is impressed by however Virat Kohli has improved his crippled against legspinners implicit the past fewer years. The ace Indian batter, who precocious announced his status from Test cricket, continues to radiance successful white-ball formats. He has been successful sublime signifier successful the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), with Royal Challengers Bengaluru securing a top-two decorativeness to suffice for the playoffs.

Kohli has struck 602 runs successful 13 innings this season, including arsenic galore arsenic 8 fifties.

After RCB bushed the Lucknow Super Giants successful their past league fixture, Chopra highlighted a “radical change" successful Kohli’s batting style, which, according to him, has made him much comfy against rotation bowling.

“Whether it’s a smartphone oregon a astute batter, you request to update oregon upgrade the bundle regularly, and that’s what Kohli has done. That’s wherefore helium is Virat," Chopra said connected Star Sports.

Chopra further shed airy connected Kohli’s onslaught complaint against legspinners successful the past 5 IPL seasons.

From 2020 to 2023, helium managed to people astatine a complaint of beneath 130, but since the 2024 edition, his numbers person improved a lot. This year, Kohli has batted astatine a onslaught complaint of 146 against leg-spinners portion successful the past season, it was 150.

“In the past 2 seasons, you tin spot the differences– 150 and 146. So obviously, there’s a extremist alteration successful the mode helium has batted," Chopra explained.

The erstwhile Indian opener besides highlighted Kohli’s bound number against good-length deliveries bowled by legspinners connected which helium has maintained a strike-rate of 139.

“How has helium been capable to bash that? He tin play the slog sweeps. He has been doing that well. He is clearing his beforehand ft and taking connected leg-spinners adjacent if the balls are finishing wrong the stumps. So obviously, helium is upgraded," Chopra said.

RCB, who person won 9 of their 14 league games, are acceptable to look table-toppers Punjab Kings successful Qualifier 1 of IPL 2025. The lucifer volition beryllium played successful New Chandigarh connected May 29.

The victor volition suffice for the final.

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