As the third and final ODI against Bangladesh was being played on Saturday in Chattogram, Virat Kohli scored his first ODI hundred in three years off 85 balls. With a six over the fine leg in the 39th over, Kohli finally reached his target. When playing against the West Indies on August 14 of 2019, Kohli scored his final ODI century. Kohli put up an incredible 290 runs for the second wicket with Ishan Kishan, who scored the quickest ODI double-century off 138 balls.
Kohli has now passed Australian great Ricky Ponting on the list of batters with the most international hundreds. He is second only to the legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who retired with an unprecedented 100 international hundreds. Kohli now has scored 27 Test hundreds, 44 ODI tons and one century in T20Is.
The India team’s Asia Cup triumph against Afghanistan in Dubai earlier this year was Kohli’s maiden century after 1,021 days. India scored 212-2 in their 20 overs thanks to the undefeated 122 not out from the 33-year-old, who had not reached triple digits since 23 November 2019 (against Bangladesh) in a Test.
Shortly after Ishan Kishan’s blistering and record-shattering performance of 210 runs, Kohli reached his century. Kishan is just the fourth Indian batsman to make a double century, and he did so in the quickest time ever for a batter to reach 200 runs in an ODI innings. After India’s opening batsman, Shikhar Dhawan, was dismissed for a lowly 3 runs off 8, the second-wicket partnership put up an amazing 290-run stand to help the team to a big score.
Bangladesh Playing XI:
Anamul Haque, Litton Das (c), Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Yasir Ali, Mahmudullah, Afif Hossain, Mehidy Hasan Miraz, Ebadot Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed
India Playing XI:
Shikhar Dhawan, Ishan Kishan, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (c & wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Umran Malik
Twitter Reacts:
Finally 💯 in ODI after 3 long years 🙏🙏🙏… Love you King Kohli ❤❤❤#INDvsBAN #KingKohli https://t.co/PeWWT9ILWQ
— Anji Theegala (@anjitheegala) December 10, 2022
Lets start dance 🕺 again https://t.co/pgfF17X6d8
— Abbas Khan 👨⚕️ (@Abkhan345) December 10, 2022
Kingggg 👑 https://t.co/hMCwOoNxFg
— 🐐🇦🇷🏴 (@LampardRegen) December 10, 2022
SCREAMINGGGG 😭😭😭😭 🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️ https://t.co/4Hvq9ulofD
— Tara 🤍 (@124AGHY) December 10, 2022
King loves to score in the final match of the series.#ViratKohli𓃵 https://t.co/x8rWvA3DVZ
— ®️ohit☄Su®️ya Fanclub India (@RO_SKY_FAN45) December 10, 2022
This man has all my heart. 💝💝 https://t.co/mpyhTsPttF
— Shourya (Lenin's Version) (@sureyaar) December 10, 2022
King for a reason. https://t.co/S14aPe6dEk
— 𝙱𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚠𝚊 (@pandey_bishow) December 10, 2022
https://twitter.com/CricMegha/status/1601503274779422720?s=20&t=CBewKuq-rXEQeboxFWfCsA
Kohli you beauty
Thank you sm https://t.co/Qm7am0YOqE— Prashant (@thecarpediemguy) December 10, 2022
