Virat Kohli: Team India has reached the final of the Champions Trophy. Team India is to play against New Zealand at Dubai International Stadium on 9 March. Now if it is said that India has reached the final due to Virat Kohli's injury, then everyone will be surprised. Everyone would say that Kohli played against Australia. He also played the match winning innings. Then how did India reach the final due to Kohli's injury.

How did Rohit Sharma change the fate of Team India by just a phone call. So let us tell you in detail about this whole matter.

Virat Kohli was injured in the first match against England

Actually, Virat Kohli's injury is not related to the Champions Trophy. It is a matter of the ODI series played against England from 6 February a month ago, due to which India has made it to the finals.

It is known that the first ODI series against England was played in Nagpur. In this match, coaches Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma were going to give Kohli a chance in the middle overs. Because Yashasvi Jaiswal was about to play as an opener. It was decided to land Shubman Gill at number three. It was decided to exclude the same middle order batsman Shreyas Iyer. After the match, Iyer himself announced it.

Decided to drop Shreyas Iyer

Then a night before the match against England, there was some problem in Virat Kohli's knee, due to which he could not play his first match against England.

Then a night before the match, captain Rohit Sharma confirmed Shreyas Iyer to play in his natural place in playing 11. This was a chance that wrote the script of India's great performance in the Champions Trophy. Because Iyer has scored runs in almost every match after that. Of course, his performance in the Champions Trophy is not visible in the shadow of big players. But those who understand cricket know that Iyer's continuous performance has given India a final ticket.

Iyer's continuous performance continues

If we look at the runs with Shreyas Iyer's bat in the last 8 matches, he has scored 45, 79, 56, 15, 78, 44 and 59 runs. Statistics clearly show that he has given India a final ticket by continuously performing well. In such a situation, if Virat Kohli was not injured against England, then India would not feed Iyer. In this way Kohli's injury has proved beneficial for Iyer and India. Now the middle order batsmen are expected to perform a similar performance in the final match.