{"id":175930,"date":"2026-06-02T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=175930"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:31:08","slug":"virat-kohli-has-mastered-the-t20-game-says-sanjay-manjrekar-after-rcbs-ipl-2026-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=175930","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli has mastered the T20 game, says Sanjay Manjrekar after RCB\u2019s IPL 2026 title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-71054294\">Royal Challengers Bengaluru secured its second consecutive IPL title with victory over Gujarat Titans in the final on May 31, and it was talisman Virat Kohli that saw it home with an unbeaten 75 in the showstopper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kohli had another impressive season, scoring 675 runs at an average of 56.25 and strike-rate of 165.84, becoming the first player in IPL history to register four consecutive 600-run seasons. His performances led former India international Sanjay Manjrekar to say that Kohli has \u201cmastered the T20 game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s now cashing in in the first six overs, but he does it a little differently,\u201d Manjrekar observed on        <b><i>Sportstar\u2019s Insight Edge<\/i><\/b> podcast. \u201cWhat he has mastered, which he was struggling with in the last few years, is achieving a higher strike-rate but playing shots which aren\u2019t the big T20 shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_embed article-block-item\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6OJkBmCze04?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What he was doing earlier was he was trying to hang in there and let the other guys hit the big shots. When he felt the pressure of upping the run rate he would go for the big shot and get out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/ashish-nehra-gujarat-titans-india-next-ball-white-coach-sanjay-manjrekar-insight-edge-quotes\/article71049952.ece\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashish Nehra should be kept in mind for India\u2019s next white-ball coach: Sanjay Manjrekar<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow he plays the in-between attacking shots, these are the bottom-hand shots. A lot of those are just flicked over short midwicket or the six is just over the boundary rope,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manjrekar also said that he had confidence that Kohli\u2019s form would transfer to next year as well, saying, \u201cAnything on middle and off, he\u2019s just chipping it over for fours and sixes. When somebody bowls outside off, then he goes down the pitch and makes it difficult. So now when I see Virat Kohli, he\u2019s mastered the T20 and IPL game, and I can see that happening next year as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former broadcaster also praised Kohli for his ability to chase totals. \u201cHe\u2019s a great chase master and it wasn\u2019t a 240 chase and he\u2019s just sort of mastered this game,\u201d he said. \u201cHe knows how to go about making sure that you don\u2019t get out as easily as some of the other top-order batters get out, but still have a strike rate of 150-160.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on Jun 02, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/ipl\/virat-kohli-royal-challengers-bengaluru-mastered-t20-game-sanjay-manjrekar-insight-edge-quotes\/article71054294.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Challengers Bengaluru secured its second consecutive IPL title with victory over Gujarat Titans in the final on May 31, and it was talisman Virat Kohli that saw it home&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/VIS_8396.JPG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175552,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=175552","url_meta":{"origin":175930,"position":0},"title":"Selectors should pick up the phone and apologise: Sanjay Manjrekar on Yashasvi Jaiswal\u2019s ODI exclusion","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"June 1, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Former India international Sanjay Manjrekar has suggested that national team selectors owe Yashasvi Jaiswal an explanation for his exclusion from India\u2019s squad for its upcoming ODI series against Afghanistan. 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