The president of the Cricket Affiliation of Bengal (CAB) Snehasish Ganguly offered a gold-plated bat to India’s batting maestro Virat Kohli on his thirty fifth birthday. Virat’s thirty fifth birthday grew to become particular for him as he struck his forty ninth ODI century to equal Sachin Tendulkar’s tally of scoring essentially the most variety of a whole lot in ODIs.
Virat’s century turned out to be a match-winning one as India received the sport by an enormous margin of 243 runs and South Africa endured their largest loss in ODI historical past by way of runs.
The gold-plated had “Joyful Birthday Virat” talked about on it. “You’re a image of dedication and a residing proof that age is only a quantity” was additionally inscribed on it.
The Cricket Affiliation of Bengal took to its Fb account and posted the photographs of Snehasish Ganguly presenting Kohli with the souvenir together with the caption, “CAB President Snehasish Ganguly as we speak offered Virat Kohli with a gold plated bat that had “Joyful Birthday Virat” talked about on it. Beneath it was inscribed “You’re a image of dedication and a residing proof that age is only a quantity”. Virat additionally minimize a large cake particularly made with a Virat statue atop the darkish chocolate cake with blue icing.”
In the meantime, Virat is now only one century away from changing into the participant to attain essentially the most variety of a whole lot in ODI historical past. With India slated to play a minimal of two video games within the ongoing World Cup, Virat can probably obtain the feat within the days to return.
India’s subsequent fixture within the marquee event is towards the Netherlands. The Males in Blue will tackle the Dutch on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday, November 12. The Rohit Sharma-led aspect has already cemented a berth within the semis however who will probably be their opponents within the semis is but to be determined.
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