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Virat Kohli’s 2026 IPL final innings can be summed up in 3 words—confident, classy, ruthless

The old Virat Kohli would have attacked the contest with visible ferocity. The Kohli of today is a more complete and possibly a more dangerous proposition.

Every now and then, a batter produces an innings that feels larger than the runs attached to it. Virat Kohli’s Sunday scorebook at the Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Gujarat Titans IPL final will record an usual 75 off 42 balls. History will jot down something else.

King Kohli has had some aggressive innings and some restrained. He has played innings in which he seems to be carrying the burden of a franchise, a tournament, or an entire cricket-loving nation on his shoulders. And then there are those rare evenings when he walks out to bat looking as though the outcome has already been decided somewhere inside his head. 

On Sunday’s final, Kohli’s demeanour suggested he had reached the ground with a personal understanding of how the........

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