1205-day drought ends… Virat Kohli finally hits century in Test
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New Delhi (Best Hindu News): The wait of months for Virat Kohli as well as the whole of India is over. The whole country was waiting for his 75th international century, which came to an end on Sunday. He has hit the 75th century of his career in Ahmedabad. He achieved this feat on the fourth day of the fourth Test against Australia. This is Kohli’s 28th Test century, which everyone was waiting for since last 40 months. In fact, the Indian star had scored his last Test century against Bangladesh on 22 November 2019. Since then he was struggling with the drought of runs.
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— BCCI (@BCCI) Mar 12, 2023
This is Kohli’s first Test hundred in the last 40 months. He completed his 100 runs in 241 balls. As soon as Kohli took a single off the second ball of the 139th over, the entire stadium started celebrating. Kohli also celebrated his century by kissing his locket.
Second batsman after Tendulkar
With this, Kohli has become the second batsman to score the most centuries against Australia in cricket history. He scored 16 centuries against this team and his journey is still going on. Legendary Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar leads with 20 centuries. Kohli has become the third Indian batsman to score the most Test centuries against Australia.
Kohli became the third Indian
This is Kohli’s 8th Test century against Australia. Sachin Tendulkar scored maximum 11 and Sunil Gavaskar scored 8 test centuries against this team. Gavaskar had done wonders of scoring 8 centuries in 20 matches against Kohli’s 24 matches. Kohli scored the first 25 centuries in 184 innings. He scored his next 25 centuries in 164 innings and his next 25 centuries in 204 innings.
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