The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper, Virat Kohli has been waiting to complete 6000 IPL runs for quite some time now and his wait extended even further owing to a brilliant fielding effort by Rahul Tripathi of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) during Match 10 of the IPL 2021 in Chennai on Sunday. Kohli, the RCB captain, won the toss against KKR captain Eoin Morgan and opted to bat, but lost his wicket in the second over of the innings after top-edging Varun Chakravarthy for five.

Kohli got off the mark with a streaky boundary in the first over of Harbhajan Singh, but in the next over, bowled by Varun Chakravarthy is where Kohli perished. Chakravarthy bowled it outside off and Virat, looking to attack, top-edged the ball into the sky.

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Initially, Kohli and his partner Devdutt Padikkal looked set to complete a couple of runs. But as it turned out, Rahul Tripathi, took off from his position at the cover point, ran back, kept his eyes on the ball, ran quick enough to take a sensational catch running backwards.

Here is the video of the catch:

https://twitter.com/shoronjeet16/status/1383726720197427202?s=20

Tripathi took a tumble but did not let the ball touch the ground. The ball was slow and tossed up and the RCB skipper decided to smash it past the 30-tard circle. But as good a ball that was, it was a fielder’s wicket with Tripathi taking what could be an early catch of the season contender. 

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Kohli’s wicket reduced RCB to 6/1, which further became 9/2 when Chakravarthy struck again four balls later in the same over. He bowled a cannonball that rushed through the returning Rajat Patidar and cleaned up his off-stump after hitting Patidar’s pads for his second wicket.