'GT se jyada enjoy to Kohli kar raha tha' - Fans react as Virat Kohli shares Insta stories praising GT players in clash against LSG

Virat Kohli supports GT (Source - Twitter)

Gujarat Titans have registered a convincing victory over Lucknow Super Giants by defeating them by 56 runs in match number 51 of IPL 2023 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Batting first, GT posted a mammoth total of 227 runs for the loss of 2 wickets. In reply, LSG could only score 171 runs losing 7 wickets in their 20 overs.

The defending champions are almost cleared for the playoffs with their eighth of the season. However, apart from GT players and their fans, another person was showering his support on Hardik Pandya’s side.

Royal Challengers Bangalore batter Virat Kohli shared a couple of stories on his Instagram account, showing his support for GT in their clash against LSG. In his first story, Kohli praised Wriddhiman Saha for his fiery knock of 81 runs off 43 balls. Sharing Saha’s picture, he wrote, "What a player" by tagging GT opener. In the next story, Kohli applauded Rashid Khan for his splendid catch to dismiss LSG opener, Kyle Mayers. "One of the best catches I’ve ever seen. Brilliant @rashid.khan19," he wrote in his second story.

GT continued their dominance over LSG

Talking further about the match, Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill gave a flying start to GT by adding 142 runs for the first wicket in 12.1 overs. After that, Gill added 42 runs with the skipper Hardik Pandya, who got out after scoring 25 off 15 balls.

After Pandya’s wicket, Gill and David Miller (21 off 12) put up an unbeaten partnership of 43 runs for the third wicket. The 23-year-old remained unbeaten on 94 runs off 51 balls, hitting two fours and seven sixes, while Avesh Khan and Mohsin Khan were the only wicket-takers for LSG.

Chasing the winning total, LSG also got a great start as Kyle Mayers and Quinton de Kock put up an opening partnership of 88 runs in 8.2 overs. However, the visitors couldn’t continue the momentum as they kept losing wickets at regular intervals after that. Mayers got out after scoring 48 runs off 32 balls with seven fours and two sixes.

De Kock, who was playing his first match of the season, took the innings further with wickets regularly falling from the other end. He got out after scoring 70 runs off 41 balls with seven fours and three sixes but couldn't take his team down the line as LSG fell short of 56 runs off GT’s total. Mohit Sharma scalped 4 wickets by conceding 29 runs in his four overs. While, Mohammed Shami, Rashid Khan, and Noor Ahmad shared a wicket each.

Virat praising GT player efforts and watching LSG lose pic.twitter.com/OG5k4o4Wbm

— Kaustubh Kale (@KaustubhKale) May 7, 2023

Rashid Khan catch.pic.twitter.com/2U7KgmzKdr

— Cricket With Abdullah 🏏 (@Abdullah__Neaz) May 7, 2023

It's nice for other teams by doing this two team will lose all their matches and it's clear both lsg & rcb will gonna lose

— Jack_parody (@sar6sm) May 7, 2023

Supporting gt today to come top 4 🤣🤣🤣 but they will meet each other 21 May

— Ragul Rohit (@RagulPalani1813) May 7, 2023

https://t.co/6HvAaW4aLW

— Trilochan (@trilochann45) May 7, 2023

I was thinking to appreciate that How good Virat is praising the fellow members of other team but I stopped when I saw the opposite team was LSG😂

— Abiram (@abiram_025) May 7, 2023

Kohli Saab is in full form to support GT today as they are playing against Virat's most favorite team LSG. 😭😭😭😭🤣😭😭🤣🤣😭😭🤣🤣

— Nikhil Pujari (@nikhilsp27) May 7, 2023

how could he forget this catch pic.twitter.com/5WkZYj15QZ

— 🅂🄾🅄🄽ᴿᵒ 🇮🇳 (@Mr_Exotic__) May 7, 2023

Virat was travelling to Mumbai while the match was going on. He must have told his manager to share story from his account whenever something great happens vs LSG

— Santhosh Udupa (@udupa_tuttu) May 7, 2023