Virat Kohli made a ‘century’ in the warm-up match, batting at number 7
Virat Kohli : Former Indian captain Virat Kohli, who was yearning for a century in international cricket for two and a half years, played a brilliant innings in the warm-up match against English club Leicestershire.
Former Indian captain Virat Kohli is on a tour of England with Team India these days. Kohli, who has been yearning for a big score for the last two and a half years, and after Scoring a century in the warm-up match against English club Leicestershire has raised some hope in the minds of the fans. Now fans want Kohli to do this in International match too.
Let us tell you here that Kohli has scored a total of 100 runs in both the innings of the warm-up match. In this way he has scored a century in the match and not in an innings. But it is a sign of getting in good form. Kohli had scored a fifty in the second innings.
Actually, Virat Kohli scored only 33 runs in the first innings against Leicestershire. For this he faced 69 balls. During this, Kohli also scored a six. After this, in the second innings, Kohli came down to bat at number 7 and this time scored fifty.
Kohli scored a total of 100 runs in both the innings.
Kohli scored 67 runs in the second innings facing 98 balls. During this he hit 2 sixes and 5 fours . In this way, Kohli scored a total of 100 runs (33 + 67) in both the innings. Kohli was clean bowled by Roman Walker in the first innings. Whereas in the second innings, Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah hunted Kohli. Bumrah got Kohli caught out.
In the second innings, Shardul Thakur was dropped before Kohli. Batting at number six, Shardul scored only 28 runs. Whereas after Kohli, that is, at number 8, Cheteshwar Pujara was sent for batting. Pujara could only score 22 runs.
When was the last international century scored?
Let us tell you that for the last two and a half years, former Indian captain Virat Kohli has been yearning for a century in all three formats of international cricket (Test, ODI, T20). Kohli had scored the last century in the Day-Night Test played against Bangladesh in Kolkata in November 2019. Since then Kohli has not been able to score any century in all three formats. The IPL 2022 season was also not good for Kohli. Kohli had to face golden duck thrice.
