Virat Kohli’s funny quip about Dipika Pallikal left Dinesh Karthik stunned© X (formerly Twitter)
Royal Challengers Bengaluru teammates Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik engaged in a hilarious banter during a recent questions and answers session with Kohli’s ‘your wife’ remark catching Karthik completely off-guard. In a video that was posted by the franchise on social media, Kohli and Karthik along with teammates Faf Du Plessis, Mohammed Siraj and Rajat Patidar took part in a fun discussion. Karthik asked his teammates to guess his favourite sportsperson other than cricket and Kohli quickly replied “your wife” referring to well-known squash player Dipika Pallikal. Pallikal has won gold medals in both Commonwealth Games as well as Asian Games and she is considered to be one of the top squash players in the country. The answer stunned Karthik for a second who broke into laughter and even admitted that he agrees with Kohli but initially, he had a different answer in his mind.
Dinesh Karthik: Who is my favourite sportsperson other than cricketer?
Virat Kohli: Your wife?
Dinesh Karthik: It’s a great answer for sure (laughs). I had a different answer in my head. You caught me off guard, completely, I swear.
Virat Kohli – the legend.pic.twitter.com/1TMIPxEQT2
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) April 19, 2024
RCB slumped to a 25-run loss against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2024 after conceding the highest team total in the history of the tournament. SRH went on to score a record 287/3 in 20 overs.
“Much better (batting performance) from us, that was a proper t20 wicket. Just tried to get close in the end, but 280 was very far. It’s tough. We tried a few things, we tried different things. There’s no way to hide when your confidence is low. The fast bowlers found it quite difficult out there. Similar to the batting perspective, we need to work on few areas. Need to make sure the run rate doesn’t go down after powerplay. The guys put up their hand and never gave up (in the run chase). It was good to see the fight, 30-40 runs from the bowling perspective was a bit too much. It’s important to go away and freshen your mind, it’s such a mental game. Sometimes you feel your mind is going to explode. When you get back to the contest you have to give full commitment,” RCB skipper Faf Du Plessis said after the match.
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