King Kohli Shows His Class with a "14K" Run Chase

A fire of determination was visible in the eyes of Virat Kohli when he rushed down to the middle after the early dismissal of Rohit Sharma in the second innings. When Kohli played that elegant cover drive off the bowling of Haris Rauf in the 13th over to breach the 14,000 ODI run mark, the crowd and the fans were shown a teaser of what they were going to witness through the innings.

Kohli, slowly and steadily started to fetch runs in the middle and kept the scoreboard ticking with a very composed display of shot making. His ability to rotate strike and be cautious against his nemesis, leg-spin, showed his hunger to cook something special in the Indian chase. The batter with his elegance and controlled shot making soon reached his fifty, and with Shreyas Iyer by his side, took the team to a touching distance away from victory.

Virat Kohli didn’t leave the business unfinished and stayed till the end after the dismissals of Iyer and Pandya and smashed a ferocious four through the cover region to bring up his 51st ODI Century, which was also his 82nd International Century for team India.

🔎 Some Key Moments from Virat Kohli’s innings from the India vs Pakistan Match:

🔺The right-handed batter became the quickest to breach the 14K mark in just 287 innings.

🔺Virat Kohli played out Abrar Ahmed cautiously and scored only 16 runs in the 30 balls he faced. He only dealt in singles and doubles against the leg-break bowler.

🔺 In all, Kohli scored 33 runs in 55 balls with a solitary boundary against the Spin bowlers and scored more than 2/3rd of his runs against the seam bowlers.

🔺 Kohli took a special liking towards Haris Rauf and Shaheen Shah Afridi and scored a total of 56 runs against them in 35 balls.

🔎 Key Moments from the Match:

🔺Indian Spinners were able to choke the runs for the opposition batters in the middle overs and gave away only 77 runs between overs 11 to 30.

🔺Hardik Pandya was key for team India from the word go and looked most threatening with the new ball. The bowler scalped 2 crucial wickets.

🔺The spin trio of Axar, Kuldeep and Jadeja were the key bowlers who dried up the runs for the opposition and put extra pressure on the middle and lower order batters to score heavily towards the end.

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