But IPL-10's first hat-trick man Badree was not celebrating for his exceptional feat as he was disappointed at his side Royal Challengers Bangalore's defeat against Mumbai Indians on Friday. Facing the hat-trick ball, Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma couldn't tackle a googly, which wrecked the stumps, to put Badree's name against the 15th hat-trick in IPL history. All - rounders Stuart Binny and Pawan Negi are presumably going to be part of today's match.
Kohli, on Tuesday, had dropped hints that he may just make a return from injury in RCB's next match against Mumbai Indians. "Tremendous feeling to get a hat-trick but it could have been so much better if we had won", said the leg-spinner who took the wickets of Parthiv Patel, Mitchell McClenaghan and Rohit Sharma in three successive deliveries in the third over of Mumbai's run chase.
Among bowlers, Jasprit Bumrah, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga and Mitchell McClenaghan were among wickets in last match. Badreee returned incredible figures of 4-1-9-4.
Sharma, Jos Buttler and Kieron Pollard have yet to fire but that could be a positive thing as the tournament develops as they are unlikely to be out of touch for too long.
"It's heartening to see Kohli play again, as his absence in the first three games made a difference to the team".
The 36-year-old's blitz left the Mumbai Indians reeling at 4-7 as the visitors lost four wickets in six balls. On a sluggish pitch at the M Chinnaswamy stadium, Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore had struggled to 142/5 but it seemed that they would be safe.
RCB failed to capitalise on the good work done by Kohli, managing just 31 runs off the last five overs and lost four wickets.
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The skipper had injured his shoulder while fielding during the third Test against Australia in Ranchi and subsequently missed the fourth and deciding Test in Dharamsala.
Off the second ball of the second over, Patel smashed one towards the cover area, only to find Chris Gayle, positioned at short cover, who claimed a fine catch.
The 28-year-old came out to bat at the top of the order with Gayle (22) and forged a 63-run partnership in 10 overs to give the RCB a flawless start.
0 Number of boundaries (four or six) hit in Royal Challengers Bangalore's innings in last five overs - first such instance in an IPL match at Bengaluru.
The spinner kept the pair reined in - conceding just seven runs off his first two overs - until Gayle advanced to chip a straight six down the ground and bring up the fifty stand off 6.4 overs.
But before that Virat Kohli produced his trade mark shots forcingthe ball to the gaps with forceful shots and over that hoped RCBadvance to 110 for 2 in the 16 over despite slow progress.
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