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'2023 is going to be Virat Kohli's year' - Fans ecstatic as Indian superstar batter scores his 45th ODI century

The ardent Virat Kohli fans are also ecstatic following this outstanding knock from his willow. The fans took to Twitter to shower love...

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Former Indian skipper Virat Kohli started his new calendar year of 2023 from where he left last year at the time of his 72nd international century. He scored that century during the third and last of the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh in Chattogram on the 10th of December in 2022.

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Currently, the 34-year-old is in action for the Indians during the first of the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka. The veteran Delhi batter continued his purple patch with the bat in the 50-overs cricket and smashed a second consecutive century in the ODI cricket. Virat completed his century against Sri Lanka in 80 balls with a strike rate of 125.00.

The ardent Virat fans are also ecstatic following this outstanding knock from his willow. The fans took to Twitter to shower love and lavish their praises on the former Indian skipper and modern-day great batting great.

Here’s how fans reacted:

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Talking about the action of the ongoing match between the hosts and the Islanders, the visitors’ skipper Dasun Shanaka won the flip of the coin and decided to field first. The men in blue got a brilliant start of 143 runs for the first courtesy to the opening pair of skipper Rohit Sharma and young batter Shubman Gill.

Rohit Sharma scored a half-century in his comeback match and played an impressive knock of 83 runs off 67 balls with nine boundaries and three sixes to his name. Whereas Gill scored 70 runs off 60 balls including 11 boundaries. Out-of-form senior wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul showed some shots but couldn’t convert a good start into a big knock. He fell prey to Kasun Rajitha on the individual score of 39 runs off 29 balls with four boundaries and a six to his name.

Riding on the brilliant performance from the batters, the hosts are batting on 362 runs for the loss of six wickets in 47.5 overs in the first innings. At the time of filling this copy, Virat Kohli is there in the middle unbeaten on the score of 113 runs with 12 boundaries and a six to his name.

Virat Kohli India vs Sri Lanka 2023