New Delhi, Sep 13 : Former India cricketer Rohan Gavaskar said that talismanic India batter Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 122 against Afghanistan in Super Four match of Asia Cup 2022 was an example of batsmanship where everyone was feeling like his dominant, flamboyant style was back.When captain Rohit Sharma was not playing, Kohli was promoted to start the bat along with standing-in captain KL Rahul.
What happened next was something that no one could have imagined Kohli shattered his streak of not making 100 runs in international cricket for the past 1020 days with an amazing career-best 122 from just 61 balls, and laced with 12 sixes and six fours with a strike rate of 200.
“When you speak of lethal he returned to the Virat we have come to have come to know.It was back to the Virat that was the 2016 Virat incredible run-scoring machine which he was in T20.Also, he looked to be in the same kind of form and that’s great because he’s peaking at the right moment.With the big event the world cup, coming in the near future, what you want is for your players to perform at the right moment and it seems like he’s talking at the right moment,” said Gavaskar on “Sports Over The TOP,” a show on Sports18.
Kohli was astonished to accelerate from 59 runs off just 40 balls to score the next 63 runs using just 21 balls, resulting in an unbroken 71st century in international cricket.
While Kohli’s century provided Indian fans plenty of reasons to celebrate, India were already out of consideration in the Asia Cup 2022 final by the time he reached.Furthermore, Afghanistan stepped on the field only 18 hours after losing a single wicket in an exciting game against Pakistan in Sharjah.
Gavaskar however, denied the entirety of this and emphasized Kohli’s achievement of an international century.It is his first century in T20Is.”With all respect You’re talking with someone who hasn’t scored one hundred.Ask any cricketer, no matter the level you play on the field, a hundred is an hundred.This was an international one.”
“Whether you achieve a hundred at club level, or get a hundred at a first-class levels is irrelevant.A hundred is an obscene amount.And this was, at the close of the day was an international one hundred.”
“So I’m not bound to the theories of an weakened opposition.No.It was an excellent century and that’s exactly what it was.Don’t worry about the weak opposition It was an international century.”
Kohli left the field at Asia Cup 2022 as second-highest run-maker, with 276 runs in six games at an average of 147.59 and his 122 runs against Afghanistan and a pair of fifty-five against Hong Kong and Pakistan respectively.He will next be in action as India play Australia in the first of three T20I matches on September 20 in Mohali.
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