King Kohli is Back ! Finally the return of Virat Kohli with his 71st International Century


India beat Afghanistan by 101 Runs, Match Summary India Vs Afghanistan, Super 4, Asia Cup. 


Virat Kohli smashed his maiden century in T20 International, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar's five-wickets haul helped India to defeat Afghanistan in Super-4 Match of Asia Cup 2022. 




Virat Kohli's 71st International Century -


Virat Kohli celebrating his 71st international Century 


Virat Kohli scored his 71st international century after 3 years against Afghanistan at Dubai international cricket stadium. He made his last international hundred against Bangladesh in November 2019. Virat Kohli dedicated his century to his wife Anushka Sharma and daughter Vamika. The wait for his 71st hundred is ended with his 122* runs knock against Afghanistan on Thursday.  



This hundred is for her, and for little daughter Vamika as well", Six weeks off and I was refreshed. I realised how tired I was but this break allowed me to enjoy the game again.  Virat Kohli said after match.




Virat opens the innings with captain KL Rahul and gives a strong partnership of 119 runs. Kl Rahul scored 62 Runs off 41 balls while Virat scored an outstanding hundred, which is also his maiden century in T20Is. He became the fourth Indian after Suresh Raina, KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma to score a century in all three formats. 




A big smile on Virat's face after scoring his 71st international century. He scored unbeaten 122 runs off just 61 balls against Afghanistan in Super 4 Match in Asia Cup. He has been in outstanding form in ongoing Asia Cup 2022. After completing his 71st international hundred he is now level with Ricky Ponting for second most international hundreds. Virat is now only behind Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who has scored 100 hundred in 664 international matches with 34,357 runs.




Player

Hundreds

Matches

Innings

Runs

HS

Average

1). Sachin Tendulkar

100

664

782

34357

248*

48.52

2). Virat Kohli

71

468

522

24002

254*

53.81

3). Ricky Ponting

71

560

668

27483

257

45.95



Virat Kohli has scored 71 international centuries with 24002 international runs. He has also scored five centuries in the Indian Premier League for his franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Let's see some batting Stats of Virat Kohli.



Career Stats : Virat Kohli 



Batting

Test

ODIs

T20IS

IPL

Matches 

102

262

104

223

Innings

173

253

96

215

Runs 

8074

12344

3584

6624

Highest Score

254*

183

122*

113

Average

49.53

57.68

51.94

36.2

Strike rate

55.69

92.84

138.38

129.15

Hundreds

27

43

1

5





KL Rahul on Virat Kohli's Performance -


Obviously, scoring runs is a huge bonus for the team, and the way he played today against Afghanistan, I know he is very very pleased with how he batted today. He has been working on his game and that walked beautifully today. As a team, it is important for every player to spend time out in the middle. (Rahul said in post match PC)


You get confidence if you play 2-3 innings, really happy that he could play that way. You all know of Virat Kohli. You have been watching him for so many years. It is not like he will only score centuries if he opens the batting, If he bats at no. 3 he can also be a sports century. It is all about roles and what role a certain player has, he added. 



"The role of Virat is that he plays it beautifully. In the next series we play his role would be different". he added 





Twitter Reactions on Virat's maiden T20IS century : 



BCCI   

        

The milestone we'd all been waiting for and here it is ! 

71st International Century for @imvkohli 



Virat Kohli  


Thank you for all the love and support throughout the Asia Cup campaign. We will get better and come back strong. Until next time .



ICC 


A hundred after nearly three  years for Virat Kohli. 



Suresh Raina 


Maiden  T20 century, so happy for you @imVkohli You totally deserve it.

Immense respect for such a brilliant innings.   



ABdeVilliers 


@imVkohli dancing again! What a lovely sight. 




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Bhuvneshwar Kumar's second Five- Wicket haul in T20IS - 


Bhuvneshwar Kumar after taking five wickets haul against Afganistan in Asia cup


Bhuvneshwar Kumar became highest wicket taker in T20IS for India after taking 5 wickets haul against Afghanistan in Asia Cup on Thursday at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. He has given his career best performance of 5/4 from his four overs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar completed his 31 T20 wickets in 2022 and  surpassed Jasprit Bumrah's figure of 28 wickets in 2016. He is one of the most important bowler of Indian Cricket Team in T20IS. He has to play and important role in upcoming T20 series against Australia, South Africa and T20 World Cup in October.



Match Summary : India Vs Afganistan Asia Cup 2022 

India VS Afganistan Asia cup



Indian Won by 101 Runs


India : 212/2  (20.0) 


Afghanistan : 111/8  (20.0) 


Player of the Match : Virat Kohli 



India -


Batter

Runs

Balls

Fours

Sixes

S.R

Rahul ©

62

41

6

2

151.22

Virat 

122

61

12

6

200

Suryakumar

6

2

0

1

300

Pant (wk)

20

16

3

0

125

Extras :           2 b0, lb0, w2, nb0, p0

Total   :            212/2 (20.0) 



Bowling 


Bowlers

Over

Maiden

Runs

Wickets

E.R

Farooqi

4

0

51

0

12.8

Mujeeb

4

0

29

0

7.2

Ahmad

4

0

57

2

14.2

R.Khan

4

0

33

0

8.2

Nabi 

3

0

34

0

11.3

Azmatullah

1

0

8

0

8



Afghanistan -


Batter

Runs

Balls

Fours

Sixes

S.R

H.Zazai

0

4

0

0

0

Gurbaz(wk)

0

1

0

0

0

I.Zadran

64

59

4

2

108.47

K.Jannat

2

4

0

0

50

Najibullah

0

2

0

0

0

Nabi ©

7

7

1

0

100

Azmatullah

1

6

0

0

16.67

R.Khan

15

19

2

0

78.95

Mujeeb

18

13

2

1

138.46

Fareed



Extras : 3 

1

5

0

0

29



Bowling 


Bowler

Over

Maiden

Runs

Wickets

E.R

B.Kumar

4

1

4

5

1

D.Chahar

4

0

28

0

7

A. Singh

2

0

7

1

3.5

Axar Patel

4

0

24

0

6

R.Ashwin

4

0

27

1

6.8

D.Hooda

1

0

3

1

3

Dinesh Kartik

1

0

18

0

18