Kohli can open T20 World Cup 2024 | Kohli can open in T20 World Cup 2024: Discussion held in BCCI meeting

Star batsman Virat Kohli can open with Rohit Sharma in the T20 World Cup 2024. The T20 World Cup will be played in America and West Indies in June this year. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had organized a meeting in this regard in Mumbai last week. Team India captain Rohit Sharma, head coach Rahul Dravid and chief selector Ajit Agarkar were present in this meeting.

According to media reports, there was a discussion with Rohit in the BCCI meeting about giving opening opportunity to Virat Kohli. Some time ago, Kohli had sought clarification from the team management regarding playing in the T20 World Cup. According to the report, the team management has also given him clarification in this regard.

Kohli was not supposed to play in the T20 World Cup till a few months ago
In fact, till recently there was a lot of speculation regarding Kohli’s place in the T20 World Cup team. According to reports, when Rohit, Dravid and the selectors met after the ODI World Cup last year, Kohli’s place in the T20 team was not certain, but a lot has changed in the last few months.

Returned to T20 International after almost two years
Rohit and Kohli have not played a single T20 match from 2022 T20 World Cup to 2023 ODI World Cup. Kohli had declared himself available for the Afghanistan home series in January this year. He and Rohit have returned to T20 International for the first time in almost two years from this series. He batted at his favorite position number-3 in two matches. In this series, Yashasvi Jaiswale started the innings with Rohit. However, there may be a change in the opening players of the T20 World Cup to be held in June.

Kohli had scored 29 runs in two matches of the series played against Afghanistan in January.

Orange cap holder who started the current season of IPL
In the last few seasons of IPL, Kohli has been opening for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Opening this season too, he is the Orange Cap holder with 361 runs in seven matches at a strike rate of 147. During this period he has also scored a century.

Kohli has also opened in international cricket.
Kohli started his international career as an opening batsman in the 2008 ODI against Sri Lanka. After some time he went to slot number 3. Kohli’s record as an opening batsman in T20 International is very good. The former captain has scored 400 runs in 9 matches.