Virat Kohli scored 72nd worldwide century, broke Ricky Ponting’s document

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Virat Kohli scored 72nd worldwide century, broke Ricky Ponting’s document

Virat Kohli took full benefit of the early aid and scored his forty fourth ODI century. Kohli hit 11 fours and two sixes on the way in which to his hundred.

Kohli additionally ended his three-year drought. His triple-figure mark in ODIs was towards the West Indies in 2019.

The right-handed batsman scored his 72nd century in worldwide cricket, surpassing Australian legend Ricky Ponting, who has 71 centuries. Kohli additionally accomplished 1000 ODI runs in Bangladesh, turning into the second participant after Australia’s Shane Watson to take action within the nation. He now has over 1000 runs in three completely different nations exterior house – Australia and England being the opposite two.

Kohli added 290 runs for the second with Ishan Kishan, who created historical past by turning into the seventh batsman to attain a double century in One Day Internationals and the quickest to realize the feat.

The left-handed batsman, who reached his 126-ball double century after hitting 9 sixes and 24 fours, grew to become the one Indian together with Rohit Sharma, Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar to attain 200 runs or extra in a single innings.

By the time Taskin Ahmed was capable of dismiss him, Kishan had scored 210 – tied with Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman for the fifth-highest rating in males’s ODI cricket, 54 runs behind Rohit’s document of 264.


With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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