Royal Challengers Bengaluru player Virat Kohli at a warm-up session before the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 cricket match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Sunrisers Hyderabad, at M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bengaluru, Monday, April 15, 2024. (PTI Photo)
Virat Kohli will now be forever immortalized in Jaipur with the city’s wax museum on Thursday unveiling a statue of the cricketer on occasion of World Heritage Day. The statue, weighing 35 kg, has been sculpted in about two months.
“They(tourists) had a strong opinion that Kohli’s statue should be in the museum. The wax statue was unveiled today on World Heritage Day,” Anoop Srivastava said.
The museum, located on the Nahargarh fort premises, already has 44 wax statues, including those of cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The museum also has the statues of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, APJ Abdul Kalam, Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, Kalpana Chawala, Amitabh Bachchan and Mother Teresa.
Speaking of Kohli, he has had a mixed Indian Premier League season with him being the highest run getter in the league but Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the last position with 6 defeats in their last 6 matches.
In a highly-anticipated duel against Bumrah in Mumbai, Kohli failed to set the tone for the contest, falling cheaply within the PowerPlay. There was not much he could do later when RCB were set a record T20 chase of 288 against SRH in Bengaluru. Kohli’s ultra-aggressive approach earned him a quick 42 off 20 balls, even as he did not look in complete control throughout the knock.
A week ago, Kohli had got to his 8th IPL century, which was against the Rajasthan Royals. But that could not take his team to victory as Jos Buttler scored a century of his own to guide RR to victory.
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First uploaded on: 18-04-2024 at 19:44 IST
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