New Delhi. Everyone’s eyes are on Virat Kohli today. The final of the World Test Championship is in a thrilling situation. On the 5th and last day of the match, Team India has to score 280 more runs to win the match against Australia. 7 wickets left. Former Indian captain Kohli is playing on 44 and Ajinkya Rahane on 20 runs. Both have also made an unbeaten partnership of 71 runs so far. Talking about the match, Australia scored 469 runs in the first innings. In response, the Indian team could only score 296 runs. The Kangaroo team had declared in the second innings by scoring 270 runs for 8 wickets. In this way India got a big target of 444 runs. Talking about 146 years of Test history, no team has been able to achieve such a big target till now. In such a situation, Kohli would like to create history with the bat.
Virat Kohli’s bat spews a lot of runs on the 5th day of the Test. The records bear witness to this. He has so far scored 696 runs in 14 innings at an average of 70 on the 5th day of the Test. During this, he scored more than 100 runs alone 3 times. If Kohli does a similar performance on Sunday, June 11, then Team India will not only create history. Rather, the drought of the ICC trophy for 10 years will also end. Kohli has also done the feat of scoring 191 runs in a single day in Tests. It is known that Team India last won the Champions Trophy in England in 2013 under the captaincy of MS Dhoni. The final of the World Test Championship is also being played in England. In such a situation, this coincidence is also with Team India.
Have scored 191 runs in one day
A match between India and South Africa under the World Test Championship was played in Pune on 10 October 2019. On the first day, Team India scored 273 runs for 3 wickets. Virat Kohli was unbeaten after scoring 63 runs. On the second day, the Indian team declared the innings after scoring 601 runs for 5 wickets. Then Kohli was unbeaten after scoring 254 runs. He scored 191 runs on the second day alone. Team India won this match by an innings and 137 runs.
In Test cricket, Virat Kohli has so far scored 1033 runs in 27 innings at an average of 49 in the fourth innings. Has scored 2 centuries and 7 half-centuries. It also includes the best innings of 146 runs. Out of this, he has scored one century only against Australia.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : June 11, 2023, 13:59 IST