‘Century runs in the veins like hemoglobin’, Sehwag’s best reaction on Kohli’s ‘Virat’ century
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On his birthday, Virat Kohli equaled Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI centuries at the historic Eden Gardens. When Kohli made a huge record, the entire stadium echoed with the noise of ‘Kohli Kohli’.
In the World Cup match against South Africa, when Kohli completed his 49th century in ODI cricket by taking a run off Kagiso Rabada in the 49th over, the entire Eden Garden rejoiced with joy. Kohli took off his helmet and accepted the greetings of the audience and looked towards the sky.
Virat Kohli is receiving congratulations from all sides on his 49th century. The biggest special thing about his century was that today Kohli is celebrating his 35th birthday. By scoring a century on his birthday, he has given great happiness to the cricket world.
While congratulating and wishing Kohli on his birthday, Team India’s former explosive batsman Virender Sehwag messaged in a special way. Sehwag wrote, century runs in his veins like hemoglobin. A young boy with dreams in his eyes has ruled the game with his work-ethic, passion, hard work and talent. Ups and downs, yes but what remains constant is his intensity and hunger. Best wishes. Virender Sehwag, reacting to Virat Kohli’s 49th century, said, what a day to equal the great man’s record of most ODI centuries. His birthday at the historic Eden Gardens. Sehwag further said, 100 in the veins, India in the heart.
Another chapter in the history of Indian cricket was written today at Eden Gardens, which witnessed VVS Laxman’s 281-run innings twenty-two years ago and Rohit Sharma’s ODI record 264 runs in 2014.
Kohli scored his 49th century in the 277th innings of his 289th ODI match. Tendulkar had scored 49 centuries and 96 half-centuries in 452 innings of 463 ODIs. Sachin has 100 international centuries to his name while this is the 79th international century of Kohli who has scored 29 centuries in Test and one century in T20 also.
In Kolkata, people were waiting for Kohli’s birthday and his 49th ODI century for the last several days. India will win the World Cup, Kohli will win, this was said by Mohammad Shamim, who was selling Jhalmuri outside Eden Garden. Cricket enthusiast Shamim could not go inside the Eden Gardens, but seeing the crowd of spectators wearing jersey number 18 on every path leading to the ground, he realized that something special was going to happen today.
Kohli completed his 79th international century by reaching triple digit in 119 balls. It was destined that Eden Gardens was to witness this as he missed by 12 runs against Sri Lanka on November 2 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
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