India Versus Pakistan, Asia Cup 2023: Virat Kohli Surpasses Sachin Tendulkar To Set Huge World File In ODI Cricket
Virat Kohli celebrates after reaching the century mark in opposition to Pakistan in Asia Cup 2023© AFP
Indian cricket workforce star batter Virat Kohli surpassed Sachin Tendulkar to realize a sensational file in ODI cricket through the Asia Cup 2023 match between India and Pakistan on Monday. The 34-year-old grew to become the quickest to succeed in 13,000 runs in ODI cricket as he reached the milestone in his 267th innings. The world file beforehand belonged to legendary India batter Sachin Tendulkar, who achieved the feat in 321 innings however Kohli was capable of shatter the present file with an excellent knock in opposition to Pakistan. Australia nice Ricky Ponting is third within the checklist as he took 341 innings to attain 13,000 ODI runs. (India vs Pakistan: Asia Cup Reside updates)
Virat Kohli finally stayed unbeaten on 122 (94b) whereas KL Rahul ended on unbeaten 111* (106b) as India scored an enormous 356/2 in 50 overs in opposition to Pakistan in an important Tremendous 4 match. India finally received the match by a file 228-run margin – their largest win over Pakistan by way of runs.
This was Virat Kohli’s fourth successive century on the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. His scores from the final three matches on the venue learn – 128*(119b), 131(96b) and 110*(116b).
Virat Kohli and KL Rahul additionally set a brand new Asia Cup (ODI) file as they stitched a 233-run stand. They broke the file of Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez and N Jamshed, who scored a 224-run stand in opposition to India in 2012. Virat Kohli has now equalled Sri Lanka nice Kumar Sangakkara’s file of 4 centuries in Asia Cup. Solely Sanath Jayasuriya (6) has extra tons within the continental occasion.
The duo’s efficiency was praised by Shubman Gill.
“Very particular for us. He (Rahul) was taking part in his first match after getting back from harm and to have the ability to rating a century in these circumstances was fairly magnificent,” he stated.
“Clearly Virat Bhai additionally accomplished his century and received to 13000 runs which reveals his nice inspiration to all of us. The ball was doing somewhat bit within the preliminary interval and so they additionally bowled nicely with the brand new ball, nevertheless it was necessary for us to take them on and put the unhealthy balls away to place the strain again on them.
“I believe he (Shaheen) was attempting to assault the wickets and I needed to indicate intent, labored for me yesterday. There is a little bit of seam motion and as soon as the ball will get older now we have to combine it up with slower ones, I discovered it tough after they had been mixing up their size and tempo.”
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