Its been a marathon golden run for Virat Kohli, who has been in great form from a long time which continued even after a long break till Friday's match against Sri Lanka in hambantota in which he made his third consecutive century against the Lankans.
there were no signs of rustiness of break in virat's innings as he looked at ease right from the start of the innings. he was accumulating runs at will and at brisk pace and kept the scoreboard ticking. he was ably supported by the Delhi dasher virender sehwag who missed out on a century himself by a whisker. their partnership laid the foundation for a mammoth total of 314 and put India on course for their first win after the break from cricket.
this knock of 106 against lanka also makes him the fastest player in the world to get to 12 ODI centuries in 83 innings. the fact that the difference between him and the next best is 30 innings just goes to show his stupendous rise to the top of the ODI cricket.
he has been India's highest run getter for more than two years now. and is also in top three run getter in ODI's for this year. this century was his fourth in five innings, and his fifth successive fifty-plus score, equaling the Indian record. these numbers just reflect his great consistency over a period of time.
for someone who is tipped to become the next Dependable in the Indian test team this consistency is just a testament of his great temperament and supplements his contender ship to the test no.3 spot. and if he continues in the same form there is no doubt he will go on to become one of the greats of limited overs cricket and might challenge his fellow team mate sachin tendulkar for the ODI records as he has amassed 12 hundreds in no time with a more than 50% conversion rate and a strike rate of around 87.
there were no signs of rustiness of break in virat's innings as he looked at ease right from the start of the innings. he was accumulating runs at will and at brisk pace and kept the scoreboard ticking. he was ably supported by the Delhi dasher virender sehwag who missed out on a century himself by a whisker. their partnership laid the foundation for a mammoth total of 314 and put India on course for their first win after the break from cricket.
this knock of 106 against lanka also makes him the fastest player in the world to get to 12 ODI centuries in 83 innings. the fact that the difference between him and the next best is 30 innings just goes to show his stupendous rise to the top of the ODI cricket.
he has been India's highest run getter for more than two years now. and is also in top three run getter in ODI's for this year. this century was his fourth in five innings, and his fifth successive fifty-plus score, equaling the Indian record. these numbers just reflect his great consistency over a period of time.
for someone who is tipped to become the next Dependable in the Indian test team this consistency is just a testament of his great temperament and supplements his contender ship to the test no.3 spot. and if he continues in the same form there is no doubt he will go on to become one of the greats of limited overs cricket and might challenge his fellow team mate sachin tendulkar for the ODI records as he has amassed 12 hundreds in no time with a more than 50% conversion rate and a strike rate of around 87.
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