This happened after Shakib had already bowled a yorker early in the innings. So amazed was Kohli at Shakib’s precision in landing yorkers to Kohli that between the 15th and 16th over, he was heard comparing Shakib to Malinga on the stump microphone.
New Delhi: India’s star was a little bit confused on the field while batting on Day 2 of the first Test against Bangladesh in Chennai. That who was the bowler was it Shakib Al Hasan or Lasith Malinga? If we talk about the facts then there are zero similarities between Shakib and Malinga’s bowling apart from the distant possibility of both delivering the ball from a lower angle with a round-arm action. But such was the Bangladesh great’s precision in landing a couple of yorkers, a delivery that Malinga used to bowl, that Kohli could not help but compare him with the former Sri Lanka fast bowler.
It is worth mentioning that this incident happened in the 15th over of India’s second innings when Shakib landed back-to-back yorkers to Kohli, with one of them nearly resulting in a return catch. This happened after Shakib had already bowled a yorker early in the innings. So amazed was Kohli at Shakib’s precision in landing yorkers to Kohli that between the 15th and 16th over, he was heard comparing Shakib to Malinga on the stump microphone.
“You are my Mali,” Kohli told Shakib. When the former Bangladesh skipper did not understand, Kohli made it clear by saying, “Malinga bana hua, yorker pe yorker (You have been landing yorkers like Malinga). Shakib naturally took the comment sportingly and had a big laugh.
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Virat Kohli to Shakib: Malinga bana hua, yorker pe yorker de raha hai 😭🤣pic.twitter.com/Ny1S6xUmkb
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