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Iceland Cricket Puts Virat Kohli As 12th Man In India’s Best Test team
By CricShots - Apr 13, 2022 6:38 pm
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Former Indian skipper Virat Kohli is arguably one of the best Test batters in modern-day cricket who would easily make it into any playing XI. However, much to everyone’s surprise, Iceland Cricket decided not to pick Kohli in their all-time India Test XI. As a result, it did not go down well with the Indian fans, as they launched an all-out attack on Iceland Cricket on Twitter.

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Virat Kohli 

Iceland Cricket has always been known for its quirky remarks on Twitter on various cricketing topics, but on April 13 (Wednesday), their Twitter handles left the cricketing fraternity fuming after they named former captain Virat Kohli as the 12th man in their all-time Test XI for India. To note, Iceland cricket has named veteran Rahul Dravid as the captain despite having MS Dhoni and Kapil Dev in the XI.

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The tweet from “Resuming our series on best ever XIs, today it’s the Indian Test team: Gavaskar, Sehwag, Dravid (c), Tendulkar, Hazare, MS Dhoni (w), Kapil Dev, Ashwin, Kumble, Srinath, Bumrah. 12th man: Kohli, 13th man: Chandrasekhar, 14th man: Jadeja, 15th man: Z Khan, 16th man: Laxman, 17th man: H Singh,” they tweeted.

Talking about Kohli’s numbers in the longest format of the game, the right-handed batter has played 101 Tests and has amassed 8043 runs at an average of 49.95 with 27 centuries and 28 half-centuries. He also happens to be the sixth leading run-scorer in Tests for India and hence it is a surprise that he has been made the 12th man.

The 33-year-old is currently playing in the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), representing Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). The Red Army lost their previous encounter against the defending champions Chennai Super Kings on April 12 (Tuesday). Kohli couldn’t make his bat talk in the game as he was dismissed after scoring one-off three deliveries.

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RCB will play their next game against the Delhi Capitals (DC). The match will be played at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on April 16 (Saturday). After losing their previous match, the Bengaluru-based tea, will want to make a strong comeback against the Capitals.