Playing and winning a Test series in South Africa is not easy for any cricket team in the world. Actually, Australia’s pitch in general is known for its bounce, and England’s pitch is known for swing bowling, but South Africa’s pitches have both bounce and swing, so the pitch here is more dangerous than in Australia and England.
In such a situation, if a batsman scored big during the Test series in South Africa, then he must indeed be a great cricketer. Virat Kohli is also one of them. Virat Kohli, who has played more than 100 Test matches, has played many excellent innings at stadiums around the world and also played century innings throughout his career, but the one innings played in South Africa will be one of his best Test matches. innings his career. We tell you about Virat Kohli’s innings and also show a clip of it.
In fact, this match was India’s second Test match in South Africa in 2018. In this match, South Africa defeated India by 135 runs, but this match is still remembered for Virat Kohli’s historic century. In this match, South Africa played the first innings and scored 335 runs. Team India, who took this score, scored a total of 307 runs in their first innings, of which Virat Kohli scored the highest score. Virat Kohli played a 153-run innings in 217 balls as captain, where he faced 217 balls and hit 15 fours. Apart from Virat Kohli, no other Indian batsman could score even a half-century in this innings.
This innings of Virat, which came in very difficult circumstances, had enabled Team India to fight in the game but South Africa scored 258 runs in the second innings giving India a target of 287 runs and Team India scored only 151 in the second innings Runs second innings. Made cake. In this way, India lost that game but people still remember Virat Kohli’s century.
Virat Kohli’s 153 innings against South Africa.
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Now India has once again toured South Africa where the Test match between India and South Africa will begin on December 26 at the same Centurion ground where Virat had played that historic innings. In such a situation, fans are making the clip of Virat’s innings viral on social media and hoping that this time too Virat Kohli will definitely score a century at Centurion and ensure Team India wins the Test series in South Africa for the first time.