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Virat is a perfect match winner. Scoring runs for winning the match is different to scoring runs for giving the team a good total. Virat is best in both chasing and scoring. He is a class player. He adopts different style scanning the pitch conditions and how the bowlers’ are bowling. Against the Gujarat Lions, he played second fiddle to AB de Villiers almost throughout the innings. On Wednesday, he didn’t let go off the strike because of the ease of which he was getting four and sixes.
And against KKR, he struck a balance between playing the anchor’s role and going after the bowlers. The size of the ground and quality of bowling to mirror in his innings. His Wednesday’s strike rate came at a strike rate of 226 while the century before that came at a shade under 199. Kolkata’s innings, however, came at 147. Once have to consider that he was chasing a good massive total in a big ground.