My half century was also called failure…’, Virat Kohli’s pain after 71st century
The long wait for star batsman Virat Kohli’s century is over. Kohli played an unbeaten 122 against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup 2022 match on Thursday (September 8). During this, Kohli faced 61 balls and hit 12 fours and six sixes. Kohli has scored a century in international cricket after 83 innings and 1020 days. King Kohli’s last international century was scored on 23 November 2019 against Bangladesh in Kolkata.
Thanks to this brilliant century of Virat-Kohli, India won the match by 101 runs in this match. After the victory, Kohli said that due to the break, he was able to learn a lot about cricket. Kohli said that when he was to score 60-70 runs, people considered it a failure. Which was quite shocking.
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Praised his wife Anushka Sharma
Kohli said, first of all I am grateful that today was such a day. Being away from cricket, I was able to learn a lot and come to know about my flaws. I had mentioned a special person earlier too – Anushka, who stood by me in these difficult times. She was with me even in my bad times and she saw it all. She kept giving me the right guidance. He taught me to look at things in a new way and because of this I came back relaxed.
Kohli says. Whatever I have got is because of God and I am not ashamed to admit that. To be honest, I batted with all my might and surprised myself. My 60-70 runs were also considered as failure which was quite shocking. I can’t really tell anything to anyone because I said that God has given me good things in the past. So I am in a position where these things can be talked about.
Team has contributed a lot in this: Kohli
Kohli said, ‘I took a break for some time and then started afresh and the atmosphere of the team also contributed to this. The team kept me relaxed and my attitude right. I was given a lot of advice and suggestions. People used to talk about me what I am doing wrong. At the end of the day as a person you know you stand out. People will have their own opinion but they may not feel what you are feeling. I am very grateful for that time and I needed it to change my perspective.
Such was the bad phase of Kohli
Between the 70th century and the 71st century, Virat Kohli played a total of 72 matches in all three formats. Adding the century innings, Kohli scored 2830 runs in 84 innings during this period, his average was 37.73. Virat Kohli scored 26 half-centuries during this period and now this first century has come. In this bad phase, Virat Kohli became the victim of zero 9 times.
Virat Kohli has now become the best scorer for India in T20 Internationals. In this case he left Rohit Sharma behind. Rohit played an innings of 118 runs against Sri Lanka in Indore in the year 2017. With this century, Kohli equaled Ricky Ponting in terms of international centuries and is now behind Sachin Tendulkar.
Most centuries in international cricket:
100 Sachin Tendulkar (782 innings)
71 Virat Kohli (522 innings)
71 Ricky Ponting (668 innings)
63 Kumar Sangakkara (666 innings)
62 Jacques Kallis (617 innings)
