Twitter Reactions: King Virat Kohli reigns supreme again, scores 30th ODI ton
He remained unbeaten on 110 that came off 116 deliveries with 9 fours to his name.
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Indian skipper Virat Kohli continued his domination in the run chases. The chase master scored yet another century in the run chase during the fifth and the final ODI of the series against Sri Lanka. The century certainly reinstated him as the prime run chaser in the modern day cricket. Kohli hit his way to the 30th ODI ton en route the chase of 238.
With the ton, Virat Kohli has now equaled the tally of 30 ODI tons set by former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting. The rate at which he is plundering centuries is a good sign of things that are about to come in the Indian cricket. Kohli is a top contender to break the iconic record of Sachin Tendulkar for most number of ODI tons. This century was Kohli’s second century in the series.
Talking about the innings, Virat Kohli walked in to bat in the fifth over after the dismissal of Ajinkya Rahane. Kohli lost the support of Rohit Sharma soon after. The visitors were in a spot of bother with the scorecard reading 29/2 midway through the 8th over of the chase. But Kohli did not let the scoreboard pressure creep to him. He batted sensibly and got himself in. He found some support in Manish Pandey and then Kedar Jadhav.
Kohli built his innings to perfection by taking calculative risks. This was evident from the stat that he had hit only four boundaries when he reached his fifty on the day. Soon, after settling well enough, Kohli started to take the attack to the opposition. He reached the landmark number in the 43th over. It was a gentle volley from Akila Dananjaya and Kohli pushed it past the point region to complete yet another majestic ton.
The entire dressing room lauded the effort of the Indian skipper. Kohli had no fancy celebrations to go about it as he knew the task was yet to be completed. He eventually saw India through with 6 wickets in hand. He remained unbeaten on 110 that came off 116 deliveries with 9 fours to his name.
Here is how the Twitterati reacted to Virat Kohli’s 30th ODI ton:
Kohli becomes the 100th player to score 10,000 runs in List-A cricket. His average is the 2nd highest among them behind Bevan (57.86).
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) September 3, 2017
Scoring back-to-back ODI 100s most times:
7 AB de Villiers
5 Saeed Anwar/ K Sangakkara/ VIRAT KOHLI
4 Ross Taylor#SLvIND— Deepu Narayana (@deeputalks) September 3, 2017
With the 30th ? Virat is the joint 2nd in the list of odi centurions, only @ 28 yrs. No mountain's high enough #SLvIND
— Deep Dasgupta (@DeepDasgupta7) September 3, 2017
Scoring 100s in successive ODI inns most times:
6 ABD
5 KOHLI
4 Anwar#SLvIND— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) September 3, 2017
Sabash tere shera @imVkohli 30th ODI ?TON ✅ #Indvslanka
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) September 3, 2017
Most hundreds in ODIs:
49 S Tendulkar
30 R Ponting/ VIRAT KOHLI
28 S Jayasuriya
25 K Sangakkara/ H Amla
24 AB de Villiers#SLvIND— Deepu Narayana (@deeputalks) September 3, 2017
Been a privilege to watch @imVkohli construct an innings, especially in a run chase.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) September 3, 2017
Fastest to 10000 runs in List A Cricket: (in inns)
219 – VIRAT KOHLI
225 – AB de Villiers
240 – Jacques Rudolph#SLvIND— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats) September 3, 2017
Virat Kohli last 30 Odis
Inns: 30
Runs: 1901
Avg: 90.52
SR: 101.33
100s: 8
50s: 10
Best: 154*#SLvIND #Unstoppable pic.twitter.com/u4BZBxAzcU— Jasveer Singh Kharra (@imjsk27) September 3, 2017
30th ODI Hundred for @imVkohli
26th in Day/Night
19th while Chasing
8th as Captain
8th against Sri Lanka
4th in Sri Lanka
4th in 2017 pic.twitter.com/ePveeUMr2W— Cricketopia (@CricketopiaCom) September 3, 2017
Kohli's scores in successful ODI chases last 1 yr:
85*
164*
122
76*
96*
111*
82*
4
3
110*#SLvIND— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) September 3, 2017
Virat Kohli becomes the first captain with THREE whitewashes in an ODI series of 5 and more matches. (Captain in all the games) #SLvIND
— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats) September 3, 2017
Kohli's ODI 100s
First: v SL, 2009
10th: v SL, 2012
20th: v WI, 2014
30th: v SL. 2017#SLvIND— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) September 3, 2017
#Kohli has got to 30 ODI tons in a breeze- @imVkohli is a Modern Day great. I have a lot of admiration for #Kohli the person & professional
— Mikkhail Vaswani (@MikkhailVaswani) September 3, 2017
Career Match No. in which player scored 30th ODI hundred: @sachin_rt – 274th ODI, Ricky Ponting – 359th ODI, @imVkohli – 194th ODI #SLvIND
— Arun Gopalakrishnan (@statanalyst) September 3, 2017
Fabulous century by @imVkohli. When the going gets tough, you expect the captain to show the way — in ability and motivation
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) September 3, 2017
And that's the ?!
Virat Kohli's gets to his 30th ODI ton and equals Ponting?. It's bread and butter for our skipper. #SLvIND— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) September 3, 2017
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