Virat Kohli missed a centuryImage Credit source: PTI
The purpose with which Virat Kohli made a comeback in Vijay Hazare Trophy after 15 years, he was completely successful in it. Team India’s star batsman, who has already scored many centuries, runs and records in international cricket, continued the same style after returning to domestic cricket. While in the first match itself Virat scored a brilliant century, in the second match he scored a brilliant half-century. This time too, Kohli was seen moving towards a century but an unknown bowler trapped him in his net and dismissed him. This bowler is Vishal Jaiswal, who embarrassed Kohli.
Prevented Virat Kohli from a century
Delhi and Gujarat were face to face on Friday 26 December at BCCI’s Center of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru. In this match, Delhi batted first and once again former Indian captain Virat Kohli batted stormily. In the first match of the season, Kohli had scored a tremendous century against Andhra, but here he was batting even faster and scored a half-century in just 29 balls.
The way Virat Kohli was hitting fours and sixes with ease, it was creating trouble for Gujarat. In such a situation, it was necessary to get him out and 27 year old Vishal did this. This left-arm spinner bowled a tempting ball to Kohli, on which the star batsman tried to hit a six. In this attempt, Kohli came out of the crease but could neither connect the ball nor return inside the crease. The ball took a turn and went into the gloves of the wicketkeeper, who quickly stumped Kohli.
How many more victims did Vishal kill?
In this way, Kohli returned to the pavilion after getting out on the score of 77, 23 runs away from his century. But not only Kohli, but this spin-all-rounder made 4 Delhi batsmen his victims, which included team captain and explosive batsman Rishabh Pant. Overall, in his 10 over spell, Jaiswal conceded only 42 runs and took 4 top order wickets.
Now the question arises who is this Vishal Jaiswal? So let us tell you that Vishal is a 27-year-old all-rounder from Gujarat, who has represented his team in all three formats. His identity is slowly being formed at the senior level and with the wickets of Kohli-Pant, he will definitely come into the limelight. But even before this he has set flags with his bowling.
Who is Vishal Jaiswal?
It is about the 2022-23 season, when he was playing for Gujarat in the BCCI Under-23 Colonel CK Nayudu Trophy. In that tournament, Vishal Jaiswal took the maximum of 70 wickets in just 20 innings, in which he also took 5 wickets in an innings 7 times. On this basis, Gujarat won that title. For this performance, he also received a trophy from Jasprit Bumrah at the BCCI Annual Naman Awards in 2024.
Vishal has played 11 first class matches so far, in which he has taken 40 wickets at a good average of 23.52. In this, he has taken 5 wickets in an innings once and 4 wickets once. He has now taken 9 wickets in his name in 13 List A matches, in which the biggest success is the wicket of Virat. This is the first time in his List A career that he has taken 4 wickets in an innings. Apart from this, he has taken 15 wickets in 16 T20 matches for Gujarat. Not only this, he has also scored 370 runs in 17 first class innings with the help of one century and one half-century.