{"id":314021,"date":"2026-04-06T00:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=314021"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:05:05","slug":"hasnt-played-much-manoj-tiwary-on-virat-kohli-ahead-of-csk-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/hasnt-played-much-manoj-tiwary-on-virat-kohli-ahead-of-csk-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hasn&#8217;t Played Much&#8221;: Manoj Tiwary On Virat Kohli Ahead Of CSK Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virat Kohli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Virat Kohli made a shocking return to T20 cricket as he smashed an unbeaten 69 off just 38 balls to guide Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) to a win over Sunrisers Hyderabad of their IPL 2026 first match. Despite not playing the T20 format for 10 months, Kohli made headlines, scoring five boundaries and five sixes to assist RCB win. Nonetheless, Kohli\u2019s former India teammate Manoj Tiwary applauded him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere shall be a minimum of just a little little bit of pressure because he hasn\u2019t played much,\u201d Tiwary said on Cricbuzz, speaking about Kohli. \u201cBut he all the time comes with proof of why he&#8217;s Virat Kohli. So long as he&#8217;s on the crease, there&#8217;s all the time belief within the dugout,\u201d Tiwary added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) wicketkeeper-batter Jitesh Sharma has said that the defending champions tag for RCB is \u201cirrelevant\u201d as they give attention to chasing the IPL 2026 title again as well.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the pre-match press conference ahead of RCB\u2019s match against Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Sharma said, \u201cFrankly speaking, it&#8217;s irrelevant. As our director of cricket, Mo Bobat, said, we usually are not defending, we&#8217;re chasing the title. This can be a latest season, we&#8217;ve got to begin one game again at a time, but with the arrogance of what we&#8217;ve got achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould you ask me personally, I feel it\u2019s a superb thing. Our Indian players are getting yet another probability, so why not? Someone who&#8217;s on the bench is getting a possibility, so I&#8217;m completely happy for that,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champions, RCB, have began their IPL 2026 campaign on a winning note, where RCB beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by six wickets within the tournament opener as well.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Get the most recent\u00a0cricket news\u00a0here, like us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/cricfitupdate?wtsid=rdr_0r9TyTtGMzhJUSzAh\">Facebook<\/a>, and follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricFit\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/cricfit?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Instagram\u00a0<\/a>for more such updates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli Virat Kohli made a shocking return to T20 cricket as he smashed an unbeaten 69 off just 38 balls to guide Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) to a win over Sunrisers Hyderabad of their IPL 2026 first match. Despite not playing the T20 format for 10 months, Kohli made headlines, scoring five boundaries and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20675],"tags":[1127,1128,21933,3996,5986,13198,644,21325,9572],"class_list":["post-314021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ahead","tag-clash","tag-csk","tag-hasnt","tag-kohli","tag-manoj","tag-played","tag-tiwary","tag-virat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314024,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314021\/revisions\/314024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}