Virat Kohli on Sunday proved why he is the best chaser in the world after his unbeaten knock of 82 against arch-rival Pakistan. The star batsman played one of the best and memorable innings in the history of T20 World Cup.
All the fans, the film fraternity, and even RRR fame director SS Rajamouli and King Kohli’s wife-actress Anushka Sharma have lauded Virat’s heroics.
The ace director who is known as the king of the box office with back-to-back blockbusters like Baahubali, Eega and RRR took to his Twitter handle to praise the world-class cricketer for his special innings.
Taking to his Twitter handle, Rajamouli wrote, “KING KOHLI!!!! TAKE A BOW!!!! His tweet has garnered over 134.5K likes with 21.7K retweets and 439 quote tweets.
Similarly, Kohli’s wife Anushka Sharma went crazy after the game.
The Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi actress took to Instagram and penned a special and emotional note for her husband.
Taking to her Instagram handle, Anushka shared pictures from the match and wrote, “You beauty!! You freaking beauty!! You have brought sooooo much joy in peoples’ lives tonight and that too on the eve of Diwali!"
"You are a wonderful wonderful man, my love. Your grit, determination and belief is mind boggling !! I have just watched the best match of my life I can say and although our daughter is too small to understand why her mother was dancing around and screaming wildly in the room, one day she will understand that her dad played his best innings that night which followed after a phase that was tough on him but he came out of it stronger and wiser than ever before! So proud of you !! Your strength is contagious and you my love, are LIMITLESS!! Love you forever and through thick and thin," Anushka's post read.
Coming back to the game, Kohli thrashed back-to-back sixes in the penultimate over against Haris Rauf to push India within 15 runs of victory from the final six balls that changed the whole game.