Twitter reactions on Virat Kohli’s 36th ODI century: Twitter was exhilarated after Kohli scored another international century.
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During the first ODI of Windies’ ongoing tour of India at Guwahati, India captain Virat Kohli scored his 36th ODI century in a dominating manner. In which was an another-day-another-century moment for the 29-year old right-hand batsman, it was as good as any of his recent innings.
Coming in to bat at No. 3 in the third over, Kohli didn’t let the early wicket have a say on India’s chase. Kohli outdid Rohit Sharma in the beginning, chiefly in the beginning. On the sixth ball that he faced, Kohli hit a boundary off debutant Oshane Thomas.
Kohli continued the trend of hitting at least a single boundary in the next four overs. After a break in the ninth over, Kohli once again initiated the spree for the next three overs.
By the end of the 12th over, having scored 87-1, India were cruising in the chase. Having already completed his half-century, Kohli was looking set for a big one. Kohli might have slowed down a bit after his half-century, but picked up on his strike rate once again after completing his century.
On the penultimate delivery of the 27th over, with a cover drive off Kemar Roach, Kohli completed his century and put on display an elated celebration.
It was an innings with domination written all over it. The Indian batsman was 92% in control of his craft in the middle. Till the 29th over, his quintessential flick shot proved to be the most productive for him for it had aided him in accumulating 48 runs.
Kohli’s innings was an instant hit on social media as well, alluring numerous praiseworthy tweets. Read some of them below:
All hail, King Kohli 👑
Brings up his 36th ODI ton 👏👏👏#INDvWI pic.twitter.com/cf70gAvbhA
— BCCI (@BCCI) October 21, 2018
36th ODI hundred for Virat Kohli comes off just 88 balls.
– 22nd in run chases
– 15th at home
– 14th as captain
– 5th vs WI (Most for India)https://t.co/njOxJu2OHI#INDvWI pic.twitter.com/j189iVdZfS— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) October 21, 2018
– 36th ODI century in 204 innings for Virat Kohli
– Sachin Tendulkar reached his 36th century in 311 innings (in Nov 2003)#IndvWI#IndvsWI— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) October 21, 2018
Kohli’s century..
60th in International cricket
36th in ODIs
31st as captain in Internationals
29th at No.3 position in ODIs
22nd when chasing in ODIs
14th as captain in ODIs
8th in 2018 in Internationals#IndvWI— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) October 21, 2018
If there’s an ODI chase
Who you gonna call? 👻‘Virat Kohli!’ 🗣️https://t.co/Fr8EceO6u8 #INDvWI pic.twitter.com/GT6ErtI5mE
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) October 21, 2018
Einstien once said, “Two things are always constant – Sun rising in the East and Virat Kohli being in great form and I am not sure about the first one”#INDvWI
— SAGAR (@sagarcasm) October 21, 2018
Most 2000+ International Runs in a calendar year by an Indian:
5 ~ Sachin
5 ~ Kohli*
4 ~ Ganguly
3 ~ Dravid— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) October 21, 2018
Virat Kohli becomes only second cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar to score 6000 ODI runs while chasing…
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) October 21, 2018
8th century by Virat Kohli while chasing 300plus in ODIs. By far the most by any batsman – four more than the next best Kumar Sangakkara. #IndvWI
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) October 21, 2018
Virat Kohli 😎
36th ODI 100
22nd while chasing 🔥
14th as Captain
5th against WI
4th of 2018Chase Master, GOAT @imVkohli 🤙
— Kumar 🙂 (@MSKumar143) October 21, 2018
RT if you agree that Virat Kohli is the greatest ODI batsman EVER. #INDvWI
— Madhav Sharma (@HashTagCricket) October 21, 2018
🇮🇳 Virat Kohli for India since the start of 2016:
– 128 innings
– 2,000+ runs in each year
– 7,471 runs
– 26 centuries
– 31 fifties
– 74 average🐐 The goat across all formats.#INDvWI pic.twitter.com/UyUiShdRXv
— bet365 (@bet365) October 21, 2018
Virat Kohli’s Daily Schedule:
👉Wake Up
👉Eat
👉Hit-Century
👉Sleep
👉Repeat36th ODI Century, Many More To Come. Virat KING Kohli. 💪🙏🇮🇳#INDvWI #INDvsWI #ViratKohli
— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) October 21, 2018
Just how good is Virat Kohli? When he gets set, the match becomes quite boring. Look at his average.#INDvWI 1st ODI live:https://t.co/LDZ7QaIGZF pic.twitter.com/8lsxCWcbBa
— The Field (@thefield_in) October 21, 2018
Most 200+ partnerships by a pair:
5 KOHLI-ROHIT
3 Gambhir-Kohli, Tendulkar-Ganguly, Jayawardene-Tharanga#IndvWI
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) October 21, 2018
We love this sight 😍
How about you?@Paytm #INDvWI #KingKohli #ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/UQL8wEollI
— BCCI (@BCCI) October 21, 2018
Youngsters watching this @imVkohli and @ImRo45 blitzkrieg should delete it from their memory immediately . Don’t start believing that batting is that easy. IT CANNOT BE THAT EASY ! These two are just another LEVEL .. Boss Men #IndvWI
— Jatin Sapru (@jatinsapru) October 21, 2018
Most 100s as captain in ODIs:
22 Ponting (220 inns)
14 KOHLI (50)
13 ABD (98)
11 Ganguly (143)
10 Jayasuriya (118)#IndvWI— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) October 21, 2018
Ummm, not a bad idea to retire after Rohit’s hundred .. Dare I say but these two have turned this into a net practice in the last few overs .. Get that middle order some game time #IndvWI
— Jatin Sapru (@jatinsapru) October 21, 2018
Watching @imVkohli and @ImRo45 at the crease makes batting look so effortless; but I know hard these 2 players work at their game #masterclass @BCCI #INDvWI
— Jonty Rhodes (@JontyRhodes8) October 21, 2018
What a year he is having @imVkohli wonder if he will break Sachin’s ODI 100s record in the world cup. If that happens the cup is made for ICC because India will inevitably do well. Well played yet again today.@vikrantgupta73 @cricketaakash
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) October 21, 2018