'Why is he bothering. He is such a great but why get into RUBBISH': Virat Kohli SLAMMED by Doull

Former New Zealand cricketer and IPL pundit Simon Doull has slammed Virat Kohli for his comments me post match after Royal Challengers Bengaluru's commanding victory over Gujarat Titans in match 45 of IPL 2024. 

Virat Kohli starred in RCB's win as he scored an unbeaten knock of 70 runs in 44 balls with an impressive strike rate of 159. Virat Kohli h been criticised heavily on social media and some of pundits for his slow strike rate in RCB's previous game against Sunrisers Hyderab. 

But after his fantastic showing against Gujarat Titans, Virat Kohli decided to let record straight by firing back at critics. This reaction by Virat Kohli has invited criticism from Simon Doull who is of opinion that Virat Kohli should've been unfazed. 

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Why did Simon Doull slam Virat Kohli? 

Virat Kohli came out post match and fired shot at his critics by saying y sit in a box.  

“I am not quite sure if you've been in that situation yourself to sit and speak about game from a box…people can talk about ir own ideas and assumptions of game but those who have done it day in day out, know what's happening," said Virat Kohli on victory. 

Simon Doull on cricbuzz live show took issue with se comments and slammed that a great player like him shouldn't pay attention to such rubbish. 

“It's interesting that he goes back to se things…cleary he's (Virat Kohli) reing social media or someone is reing all social media about him..Why is he boring (to re). I mean bloke is sucha a great player. Why are you boring or why are people even boring to re rubbish that you write and telling him. So I don't understand that”, said Simon Doull. 

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Doull furr raised a point that this is nothing new when it comes to Virat Kohli and he has lashed back against critics multiple times before as well.

“And he does this quite often in post match presentations where he has a point to make about stuff that is written about him," said Simon Doull. 

Virat Kohli h recently come under major criticism from many pundits and fans for playing with a slow strike rate in IPL 2024. Despite scoring 500 runs with an average of 71 for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 10 matches so far during current IPL campaign, people have nit picked and criticised Kohli for going at 147.49.