16 November,2023 11:05 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli
India and New Zealand treated fans to a nail biting semi-final match on Wednesday. While India put an impressive score of 397-4 in the first innings, NZ also gave their all in chasing the target. The match also saw Virat Kohli breaking Sachin Tendulkar's record of most centuries scored in an ODI. Post India winning the match by 70 runs, actor Anushka Sharma penned down an appreciation note for her husband Virat Kohli as he became the first player in the history of ODI cricket to score 50 centuries.
Taking to Instagram, Anushka Sharma shared a post on her stories which she captioned, "God is the best script writer. Utterly grateful to him for blessing me with your love, and to watch you grow from strength and achieve all that you have and will, being honest to yourself and to the sport always. You are truly gods child."
Following his century, Virat bowed to Sachin, who was in the stands, enjoying the action. He also blew a kiss to his wife Anushka who was celebrating the milestone from the stands. After a string of low scores in 2011, 2015 and 2019 WC knockout games, it was this historic knock that ended India's wait for a Virat special in 50-over WC knockouts. Virat celebrated this historic moment with a jump, despite battling cramps.
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Carrying forward the blazing start given by the openers -- skipper Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill -- Virat brought up his 50th ODI ton in 106 balls with 8 four and 1 six. He later opened out before eventually falling for 117 off 113 balls. His knock was punctuated with nine fours and two sixes. Virat scored his runs at a strike rate of over 103 before being eventually sent back by Tim Southee. Now, Virat has a total of 50 ODI centuries in 291 ODIs. He has overtaken his childhood idol Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 49 ODI centuries in his decorated career.
This was also Virat's 80th international cricket century. The star batter also has 29 Test centuries in 111 Tests and one T20I century in 115 matches. He is the second-highest century scorer of all time in international cricket and is chasing Sachin's record of 100 international tons.
Virat is now the third-highest run-scorer in all of Cricket World Cup history. In 36 matches, he has scored 1,731 runs at an average of 61.46, with the best score of 117. He has scored five centuries in his WC career so far, with 11 fifties as well.
(with inputs from ANI)
