Virat Kohli, the Indian captain, and an enchanting batsman have done it again. Centuries seems like a child’s game for Kohli as he gets another century to his credit. In a second ODI against Australia, India’s run machine Kohli got his 39th century while chasing the target of 298 set by Australia.
India had a decent start with Rohit and Dhawan on the crease. Later on, the match took a turn when they both got dismissed followed by Rayudu on 24 runs.
Kohli has always been terrific when it comes to chasing. Today was not an expectation as the Indian captain took responsibility to make it happen for India. Owing to a loss in the first ODI and a historic victory in the test series, winning second ODI becomes important for the team.
So, as soon as Kohli got his 100 off 108 balls, people took it to Twitter to express their views about the same.
Most intl hundreds (all formats) by visiting batsmen to Aus:
11 – Virat Kohli
9 – David Gower
9 – Jack Hobbs
8 – Brian Lara
7 – Wally Hammond, Viv Richards, VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar#AUSvIND— Adam Burnett (@AdamBurnett09) January 15, 2019
It's been a privilege to have seen some great Kohli centuries. It was a privilege to have seen this one.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) January 15, 2019
Most international 100s after fielding first:
39 – Kohli*
39 – Sachin
26 – Ponting
25 – Mahela
25 – Lara— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) January 15, 2019
Virat Kohli has now scored seven more ODI centuries than Joe Root, Kane Williamson and Steve Smith combined.
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— bet365_aus (@bet365_aus) January 15, 2019
This is Kohli's 9th Century in his last 19 ODI innings… Insane ?
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) January 15, 2019
Kohli needs only 11 hundreds to break Sachin Tendulkar's 49 hundreds record…
— JSK (@imjsk27) January 15, 2019
Virat Kohli becomes the first Indian captain to score an ODI century in Australia.
Previous highest ODI score by an Indian captain in Australia:
93 – Mohammad Azharuddin vs AUS in 1992
93 – Sachin Tendulkar vs PAK in 2000#AUSvIND— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats) January 15, 2019
It is extremely hard to construct a case that Virat Kohli isn't the greatest ODI batsman of all time. Today's century moves him within 10 of Sachin Tendulkar's tally of 49 – Kohli has 246 matches left to score the 11 he needs to pass Tendulkar's tally in fewer matches. #AUSvIND
— The CricViz Analyst (@cricvizanalyst) January 15, 2019
39th ODI century, and 24th while chasing – the legend remains unstoppable; home or away he's the #King.. #ViratKohli #Kohli ??#AUSvIND
— Kaushik LM (@LMKMovieManiac) January 15, 2019
39 ODI hundreds.
And he’s only 30 years old.
Phenomenal #Kohli— Andy Maher (@AndyMaherDFA) January 15, 2019
Lol..!! @SonyLIV streaming stopped on both app and browser after #Kohli wicket..!! Reminds me of days when people switched off TV's when Sachin got out..!! #AUSvIND
— Deepak Nair (@blahblah_dodo) January 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/KaptaanFearless/status/1085076191655194624
Keep going Virat and make India Proud.
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