Virat Kohli’s unbeaten century fixed India’s fourth win from four World Cup matches as the hosts crushed Bangladesh by seven wickets on Thursday with the star batsman surrounding Sachin Tendulkar’s record for ODI hundreds. Kohli arrived at his hundred years and finished the coordinate in style with a six against spinner Nasum Ahmed when he really wanted three hurries to finish his 100 years and India two additional races to arrive at an objective of 257. While Kohli sparkled with the bat, skipper Rohit Sharma (48) and Shubman Gill (52) additionally added to India’s pursuit. In the interim, number 4 hitter Shreyas Iyer fell for 19 runs.
The excusals of both Gill and Iyer were poor as both the players discarded their wicket and previous India skipper Sunil Gavaskar was miserable over the purpose of the hitters.
“He (Shreyas Iyer) became irritated. He was batting on 19, discarded his wicket. Shubman Gill (was batting on) fifty (52), discarded his wicket,” expressed Gavaskar on Star Sports.
“Kohli never does that. Kohli will rarely at any point discard his wicket. He causes you to acquire his wicket. Also, that is precisely exact thing you want. When he got to 70-80, understanding that he has a valuable chance to get to 100 and what difference would it make? Hundreds don’t come regular,” added the previous India commander.
“You really want to know how to get to 100 and it’s significant for Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill. Shubman Gillis essentially getting hundreds, Shreyas Iyer isn’t getting hundreds. He is getting his chances to bat at number 4 on pitches as great as these and assaults however innocuous as this and he seems to be discarding the open door,” Gavaskar accentuated.
India arrived at home with in excess of eight overs in excess, completing on 261 for 3.
Kohli’s 48th ODI century left him only one short of equalling India incredible Tendulkar’s unequaled record of 49 hundreds at this level.
Kohli confronted 97 balls, including six fours and four sixes, with this century his third score more than fifty out of four innings following commitments of 85 and 55 not out in ongoing pool prevails upon Australia and Afghanistan.
Be that as it may, for Bangladesh, a third loss in four coordinates passed on them with a difficult task to meet all requirements for the semi-finals.
