Virat Kohli pursued the pitch to Suranga Lakmal and hit a length ball outside the off stump over profound additional cover for a six to achieve his hundred — his eighteenth in Tests and 50th in worldwide cricket.
Kohli achieving three figures, in any case, has practically turned out to be normal recently. KL Rahul not changing over another half century into a hundred was maybe the more discussed occasion. The opener was knocked down some pins by Lakmal on 79 in the morning session, when he attempted a flick an in-swinger, leaving enough space amongst bat and cushion for the conveyance to sneak through. This was Rahul’s ninth 50 years in his last 11 Test innings, however on Monday, he was playing to a group design.
At the point when Saha was out, Kohli was batting on 57 off 92 balls. His next 47 runs fell off only 27 conveyances.
“Virat played a remarkable thump that was what we anticipated from one batsman today, and he conveyed,” Rahul said.
All things considered, by his confirmation, India were compelled to defer the assertion in light of the three wickets they lost in the morning session. “We lost three wickets right on time, in one spell of Lakmal. So we needed to play somewhat additional.”
348 number of innings Virat Kohli took to achieve his 50th universal ton (18 Tests, 32 ODIs). He is the speediest to the stamp alongside Hashim Amla. Sachin Tendulkar required 376 innings to achieve 50 worldwide hundreds.
9 Number of global ton for Kohli in 2017 — the most by him in any date-book year. His past best was eight (2012 and 2014). It was Kohli’s eleventh ton in his 30th Test as skipper, the same as Sunil Gavaskar who drove in 17 more recreations.