Virat Kohli scored fiftieth ODI century. (PTI Photo)
No one can neglect at the present time i.e. fifteenth November within the historical past of cricket. This day was already recorded within the pages of cricket historical past, however on Wednesday, one other historical past was added to this date. On 15 November 2023, Virat Kohli scored a century within the semi-final match of ODI World Cup-2023. With this Kohli created historical past. He went forward of his idol Sachin Tendulkar. That too on the identical floor which known as Sachin’s dwelling and on that date when Sachin performed his final match of worldwide cricket.
Kohli performed an inning of 117 runs within the semi-final match towards New Zealand on Wednesday. This was the fiftieth century of Kohli’s ODI profession and with this he grew to become the batsman who scored probably the most centuries in ODIs. Till now he was on par with Sachin on this matter. Sachin has 49 centuries in ODIs. But Kohli has now gone forward of him.
Amazing coincidence of Wankhede
Sachin performed his final worldwide match within the yr 2013. He performed this match as a check match towards West Indies at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Sachin was out on this match on 15 November and didn’t come to bat once more. That is, as a batsman, Sachin had left the stadium for the final time on at the present time and didn’t return once more. This floor was his dwelling floor. At that point nobody had even considered breaking the data made by Sachin. But after just a few years it was mentioned that if anybody can do that work then it’s Virat Kohli. 10 years later, on the identical floor, on the identical date, when Sachin bid farewell to cricket, Kohli broke Sachin’s world report. This is only a coincidence however such a coincidence is making this fiftieth ODI century of Virat particular.
Sachin had predicted
With this, one in all Sachin’s predictions additionally got here true. After his retirement, Sachin went to a program whose host was Bollywood star Salman Khan. Salman had requested Sachin who based on him can break his data? On this, Sachin had mentioned that he can be completely happy if any Indian breaks and Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma have the power to take action. After 10 years, Kohli made Sachin’s phrases true by making a giant report in his title.
broke one other report
Virat broke one other report of Sachin on this World Cup. Such a report which was in Sachin’s title for 20 years. Sachin had scored 673 runs within the ODI World Cup performed in South Africa in 2003. He was the batsman who scored probably the most runs in a World Cup. This report of his stood for 20 years. But within the semi-final match towards New Zealand, Kohli broke this report additionally. Before this match, Kohli was 79 runs away from Sachin’s report however now he has gone forward. Kohli has now scored 711 runs on this World Cup.