'Virat Kohli would have struggled against me, had only scored 20-25 hundreds' - Shoaib Akhtar

The Bangalore team has been decent in the 2022 season of the Indian T20 League, but Virat Kohli is yet to make a mark. Apart from his two scores of 41 and 48 against Punjab and Mumbai respectively, Virat has not done much. He only has 119 runs in the six matches that he has played.

And now, Shoaib Akhtar has made some bold claims about Virat Kohli. Akhtar has said that had he played against Virat Kohli,  he wouldn't have allowed him to score 50 international hundreds. Kohli currently has 70 international tons. However, he hasn't scored one since 2019.  The Rawalpindi express added that Kohli would have scored 20-25 hundreds at most if he had played against him.

"Virat Kohli is a good person and a big cricketer and you only expect big words from big players. And I thank him a lot for that. But, if I would have played against Virat Kohli then he would not have scored these many runs but whatever he would have scored those would have been fabulous and it would look that he really fought hard for those runs. He may not have had 50 centuries. 20 or 25 may at the most but those would have been valiant hundreds. I would have gotten the best out of Virat Kohli," Akhtar said as quoted by MSN.com

Speaking about Kohli's lean patch, Akhtar said that Kohli needs to start performing else he may get dropped from the team. Akhtar asked Kohli to consider himself as an ordinary player "It's a performance-based IPL franchise model. No one will be spared, not even Virat Kohli. Even he can be dropped if he does not perform. Some of the things I can't even say now. Not one but there are 10,000 things going on in his head."

"He is a good person, a good player and a great cricketer, but I want him to just focus, on one thing at a time. Consider yourself as an ordinary player, pick up your bat and just play. People have already started pointing fingers at Virat Kohli and it's dangerous," he added.