It would not be a surprise if dictionaries soon change the definition to Virat Kohli. Virat Kohli has indeed emerged as the best modern-day batsman and we have said this about a million times now. Today the stalwart batsman got his 34th One Day International Hundred from just his 205th game. This player is a different class altogether.
After winning at Durban and then The Centurion the action moved to Cape Town today. After India was asked to bat first by Aiden Markram, India lost Rohit Sharma without even getting a move on the scorecard. It was then about a beautiful partnership between Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli that got things underway.
Shikhar Dhawan played a very valuable knock of 76 as he stitched a partnership of 140 with the skipper. After Dhawan’s departure, the wickets of Ajinkya Rahane and Hardik Pandya fell in quick successions. But as wickets tumbled from the other end, Virat Kohli held his ground and smashed yet another ODI century. This is his 34th ODI century and his second in South Africa.
ANOTHER STEP CLOSER TO SACHIN’S RECORD
Virat Kohli is now only 15 centuries short of equalling Sachin Tendulkar’s world record of most ODI centuries. Sachin has 49 ODI hundreds from 463 and this young 29-year-old lad has smashed 34 in just 205. TAKE A BOW VIRAT KOHLI!
TWITTER HAILS KOHLI
Yet another inning, yet another century and yet another flood of applause. We are lucky to belong to a generation where we can see this guy bat live! Twitter is once again going gaga over Virat Kohli and we now that such scenes are only getting more and more frequent. VIRAT KOHLI IS INCREDIBLY CONSISTENT AND WE LOVE HIM FOR THIS!
Here is how Twitter is drooling over Virat Kohli:
https://twitter.com/zs_Saniya/status/961239041222918144
https://twitter.com/virat_18_lovers/status/961243816001859585
https://twitter.com/Ragavi_ragss/status/961237321726099456
Another Century by King #Kohli .. Spellbound.. Kuch bol k faida nahi hai is aadmi k liye.. @imVkohli #IndvsSA
— Sumit Kadel (@SumitkadeI) February 7, 2018
Congrats to Virat Kohli for his 34th shaam tak khelne wali innings.
— Trendulkar (@Trendulkar) February 7, 2018
It has to be said @imVkohli is head and shoulders above anyone else as an ODI player. Unbelievable. #ViratKohli #SAvsIND #Kohli
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) February 7, 2018
Virat Kohli now has the most ODI centuries among Indian captains, going past Ganguly’s 11 centuries. #SAvInd
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) February 7, 2018
Most centuries as a CAPTAIN in ODI cricket:
22 – Ricky Ponting (220 inns)
13 – AB de Villiers (98 inns)
12 – VIRAT KOHLI (43 inns)
11 – Sourav Ganguly (143 inns)
10 – Sanath Jayasuriya (118 inns)#SAvIND— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats) February 7, 2018
Three 100s in the last four ODI innings for Virat Kohli and in those three innings he has hit only one six. Still keeps his strike rate around 90. Incredibly smart batsman. #RSAvInd
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) February 7, 2018
Man or machine? @imVkohli gets to his 34th ODI ton. Stand up and salute the master #TeamIndia #SAvIND pic.twitter.com/LYnYT8k6Bx
— BCCI (@BCCI) February 7, 2018
Again!?!? ?? https://t.co/yyahg9ggh8
— Danielle Wyatt (@Danni_Wyatt) February 7, 2018
Run machine @imVkohli kya baat hai Teri, yeh bandha alag level ka player hai ??????
@BCCI #IndvsSA
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) February 7, 2018
There’s a degree of inevitability to this!! #kingkohli https://t.co/5BqwCNDG21
— Isa Guha (@isaguha) February 7, 2018
Yet another ? for @imVkohli … the hunger & consistency is remarkable … the Greatest ever ODI player ??? #SAvIND
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) February 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/virat_18_lovers/status/961241383544569857
