Twitter Goes Wild As Virat Kohli Brings His 27th Test Century

Two wickets down and Team India skipper Virat Kohli was once again upto the mark to bring his side on top. The hosts were for 43 for two with openers back in the hut but Kohli steered the innings alongside Cheteshwar Pujara adding 94 runs for the third wicket. Previously, India had knocked off Bangladesh for 106 runs in the first innings of the historic day-night Test at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Ishant Sharma was the wrecker-in-chief for India on day one scalping a five-wicket haul to put the visitors on the backfoot. In the process, he became the first Indian to claim a hat-trick in the day-night Test. Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami also made useful contributions picking three and two wickets respectively. Shami made the batters dance to his tunes and bowled venomous bouncers injuring two in the process. Bangladesh had to call for two concussion substitute; becoming the first-ever team to do so.

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Batting looked difficult during the twilight period and India lost both their openers early. Mayank Agarwal (14) and Rohit Sharma (21) got the start but failed to carry on which saw Virat Kohli in the middle within 13th over. But the India skipper looked completely in the scheme of things right from the onset. He played those gorgeous looking drives forcing the bowlers also do nothing but applaud. In the process, he became the first Indian skipper to score 5000 Test runs.

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Kohli soon marched towards the half-century mark; his 26th in Tests. But the cricketer was in no mood to respite as he carried on the same momentum on day two to reach his 27th hundred from the overnight score of 59. Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane looked in complete control of the pink ball as they manoeuvre the ball with ease as India extended the lead.

The #RunMachine at it again ??@imVkohli brings up his 27th Test ?#PinkBallTest #INDvBAN pic.twitter.com/rL4wDIdKsK

— BCCI (@BCCI) November 23, 2019

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Although Rahane got out after his individual fifty but it didn’t the talismanic run-scorer as he marched toward another outstanding century. Kohli took a cautious approach in the nineties but reached to 99 with a boundary and then reached the three-figure mark with a double. With India at 255 for four, Kohli will be keen to convert this to a double and extended the lead as far as possible.

Twitter Reactions

Red Ball … White Ball … Now Pink Ball … @imVkohli is the best Batsman across all formats in this era … #100 #INDvBAN

— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) November 23, 2019

Wah virat wah #Kohli #INDvBAN #PinkBall pic.twitter.com/dnFi2qkO4H

— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh) November 23, 2019

Kohli’s march to all-time greatness continues uninterrupted. Weak opponents, sure, but a century does not come as a gift. And what an amazing converion rate!

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) November 23, 2019

Another classy century. 27. In the same number of innings it took Tendulkar. Kohli idolises Tendulkar, he is, literally, following in his footsteps

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) November 23, 2019

can it get better thn this…!!!special test has become even more special now…It becomes better when a great player make that occasion even bigger…fantastic 100…carry on master @imVkohli @BCCI

— Samip Rajguru (@samiprajguru) November 23, 2019

1st pink test hundred ? India best cricketer @imVkohli @vkfofficial Motivation of day Saturday #INDvsBAN #viratian pic.twitter.com/3t4lzTzCHR

— Vijay (@Vijay30327293) November 23, 2019

Kohli gets to his maiden pink ball Test ton at the Eden Gardens. He must convert it into a double here at least. #INDvBAN

— ?????? ????? (@GautamSodhi1) November 23, 2019

Virat kohli adds another feather to his already studded crown #viratkohli pic.twitter.com/lquF7FNW9K

— sriram.vk (@SriRamAnfield) November 23, 2019

??????@imVkohli ??‍♂️ world class player ?

— $$$ (@sairamkaranam) November 23, 2019

Machine of the highest quality! #ViratKohli #INDvsBAN #PinkBallTestMatch #Legend

— Jonathan Sunil Moses (@Jonathansunil) November 23, 2019

First ? for ?? :

In Test : Lala Amarnath v ??????? (Mumbai, 1933)
In Odi : Kapil Dev v ?? (Tunbridge Wells, 1983)
In T20I : @ImRaina v ?? (St Lucia, 2010)
In Day Night Test : Virat Kohli v ?? (Kolkata, 2019) #INDvBAN #PinkBallTest #ViratKohli

— Akhil Gupta ? (@Guptastats92) November 23, 2019

Opponent bowler praising for virat's cover drive ??? #KingKohli #viratkohli @imThala__Kohli pic.twitter.com/gNhD0COb9s

— Finch (@vk_ak_pk) November 22, 2019

Good batting @imVkohli

— vishnupatel (@vp06099) November 23, 2019