Virat Kohli lastly ended a watch for his forty ninth ODI century by smashing an unbeaten hundred towards South Africa on Sunday, November 5. Celebrating his thirty fifth birthday, Kohli equalled legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s elite document for many ODI centuries to script historical past at Kolkata’s iconic Eden Gardens.
The cricket fraternity took social media by storm with congratulatory posts for the star batter. Sachin himself took no time to congratulate his former teammate with an attention grabbing put up on his Twitter deal with. Sachin lauded Virat for equalling one of many greatest information and tipped him to convey the fiftieth century within the subsequent few days.
“Nicely performed Virat. It took me one year to go from 49 to 50 earlier this yr. I hope you go from 49 to 50 and break my document within the subsequent few days. Congratulations,” Sachin Tendulkar wrote in his Tweet.
Virat Kohli described his hundred on birthday as a dream come true and thanked God for blessing him with this second.
“Each alternative to play for India is a giant one, to have the ability to ton up on my birthday is a stuff of desires,” Kohli stated after scoring his century. “Grateful to God that I’ve blessed with such moments. It is a goal properly above par for me because the ball was gripping and it wasn’t straightforward to pay money for the bowlers. We’ve a high quality assault. Wicket will get slower, strain will mount, so hopefully we begin properly with the brand new ball.”
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