So finally, the day has arrived for the cricketing world when they saw an international century from the modern-day batting great Virat Kohli. He was going through a poor run of form with the bat. He smashed 122 runs off just 61 balls with 12 boundaries and six amazing sixes on his credit. His knock helped India to register a mammoth victory of 101 runs against Afghanistan in their last match of the super-4 round in the Asia Cup 2022.
This century has come for Virat after a long wait of three years since the last one he scored against Bangladesh in a Test match in November 2019. This amazing century of Kohli has broken the internet, many former cricketers and fans came up with their reactions to praise Kohli.
Other than this, Kohli’s wife and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma came up with an emotional Instagram post for his husband after the much-anticipated century.
Anushka Sharma shared an emotional post for Virat Kohli
“Forever with you through any and everything,” reads the caption of the Instagram post uploaded by Anushka Sharma.
Here's the Instagram post of Anushka Sharma:
Speaking about the match between India and Afghanistan, then the Afghan skipper Mohammed Nabi won the toss and asked the Indians to bat first at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. Batting first, Indians posted a big total of 212 runs for the loss of only 2 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Other than this, senior batter KL Rahul also played a fine knock of 62 runs off just 41 balls with six boundaries and two sixes to his name.
Fareed Ahmed was the only Afghan bowler who scalped two wickets. While chasing the target, Afghanistan could score only 111 runs for the loss of eight wickets after playing all 20 overs. Ibrahim Zadran was the only batter who managed to play a struggling knock of 64 runs for his team. Eventually, India won the match by a massive margin of 101 runs and ended their Asia Cup campaign with a win.