King Kohli of India is one of the few players who have played every season of IPL. He is a witness to the inaugural match of the IPL, which started in 2008. Because the first match was held at the Eden Gardens between Royal Challengers Bangalore (now Royal Challengers Bangalore) and Kolkata Knight Riders. Recently, Virat Kohli recalled some of the fun moments of sledging with Ishant Sharma during that match. Kohli said that Ishant Sharma tried to harass him with confidence and new hairstyle due to the confidence of Australia tour. He too gave a befitting reply to this, although he admitted that all this was part of the game.

Raj opened after 18 years

KKR hosted RCB in the first match of the IPL 2008 season at Eden Gardens. In this match, there was a funny knock between Virat Kohli playing for RCB and Ishant Sharma playing for Kolkata. Kohli has now made a fun disclosure about this incident. India's star batsman said in an interview in Jio Hotstar's show '18 Calling 18 'that Ishant Sharma then came from Australia, he had done hair color. At that time he became a little star. Ishant was sledging him in that match. Then Kohli said to Ishant- I will tell you to you on the side. But it was all fun and part of the game. Virat told that he got a lot of pressure in that match, because he had never played in such a stadium ever before. He was really very nervous. He still remembers that he was marking his guard and looking at the ground.

I thought I would not be able to hit against Ishant

Virat Kohli said that he had never played that kind of crowd or that kind of environment, but the most interesting thing for him, which he never talked about, is that Ishant and he has played all his cricket together. Kohli said that he has played a lot with Ishant. We used to play together in Delhi's Ranji team, but in that match when he was bowling him, he felt that he was a separate level bowler. There was pressure on them. He felt that he would not be able to hit a hit against Ishant because there was a lot of pressure and one wicket had fallen. Then he understood what the pressure is and what is the atmosphere in a big match.

KKR recorded a big win

Batting first in the opening match of the first season of IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders scored 220 runs losing 3 wickets in 20 overs. In this match, Brandon McCullum scored 158 runs. In response to Kolkata's score, the entire team of RCB collapsed for just 82 runs in 15.1 overs. Only 2 players of RCB had reached double digit. At the same time, Ishant Sharma took a wicket by dismissing RCB captain Rahul Dravid. In this match, only one run came from Kohli's bat.