Virat Kohli’s childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma has praised Virat Kohli for scoring a century in the third ODI against New Zealand in Indore. He appreciated how Kohli, who was in great form, single-handedly led India in the chase.
Virat Kohli has been in some undeniable touch since his return to the one-day format for India. Kohli scored his third international century after announcing his retirement from Test and T20 cricket.
Kohli has maintained his excellent form in the 50-over format, as he has scored more than a half-century in the last 6 of his 7 matches for India. Three of these were brilliant centuries from the Indian maestro.
Virat Kohli, who scored a brilliant century in Indore, was praised by his childhood coach.
Indian maestro Virat Kohli’s childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma has once again praised the Indian batsman who scored a brilliant century in the third ODI against New Zealand. He showed that this was a display of Virat Kohli’s tremendous form in the 50 over format.
However, the childhood coach pointed out that Kohli’s innings was not only an inning of individual glory but a selfless display from an Indian great who has reached the final stages of his career.
“He played a brilliant innings yesterday and showed what kind of form he is in. Unfortunately, he could not win the match for India as a lot of wickets fell. The way he played for his team and country is commendable,” Rajkumar Sharma told ANI.
Virat Kohli’s big record against New Zealand
Despite failing to lead India to victory in the series-deciding match in Indore, great cricketer Virat Kohli gave hope to Team India as long as he was present at the crease. Ultimately he was out after scoring 124 runs on 108 balls and was 46 runs short of the target.
Virat scored his seventh ODI century in 36 innings for India against New Zealand, which is the highest by any batsman against the Kiwis. However, this has been a very challenging opponent for the Kiwis.
Combining all three formats of international cricket, he holds a comprehensive record with 10 centuries against the country. He now officially has the most centuries against the Blackcaps.
Virat overtakes former Australian batsman in terms of great international records
Virat Kohli had already overtaken former Sri Lankan great Kumar Sangakkara and reached second place behind Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar in the list of highest run scorers in international cricket.
Kohli has broken many records of Australian great Ricky Ponting throughout his career and now he has another record in his kitty. He overtook Australian legend Ricky Ponting, who had the number 12,655 runs in his career. 3.
Virat Kohli now has 12,676 runs in 244 matches while batting at number. In 3 more situations the average has been more than 61.53. He also scored 47 centuries and 67 half-centuries with a best score of 183.
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