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Anushka Sharma puts out a heartfelt message after Virat Kohli scores his 44th ODI hundred

Virat Kohli has been in good from since the 2022 Asia Cup.

Dec 10, 2022 6:41 pm

Virat Kohli is back in form in the ODI’s as he scored his 44th ODI hundred and 72 hundred overall in international cricket. Soon after he had scored the landmark century. Anushka Sharma gave a big shout out to him on her Instagram story. She posted a picture from Virat’s big moment and wrote ‘100’ along with a couple of heart emojis.

Here is a screenshot of the same-

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Kohli has hit a purple patch of form in the shorter formats of the game since the Asia Cup in 2022 where he has scored 276 runs at an average of 92 and a strike rate of 147.59. He was the second-highest run scorer in the tournament. Then Virat carried his form there into the 20-20 World Cup in Australia. He scored his maiden T20 century against Afghanistan in the tournament.

Virat Kohli scored an ODI century after three years

In the 20-20 World Cup in Australia, he scored 296 from six innings at an average of 98.66 and a strike rate of 136.40. He had 4 fifties to his name. He showed the world that he was back in business after he scored an unbeaten 82 against Pakistan in the 20-20 World Cup opener. While he was doing well in the shortest format, he was not doing so well in the ODI format where he had not scored a hundred for three years since 2019.

He set out to erase the monkey off his back in the third ODI against Bangladesh, where he scored a superb sublime innings of 113 off 91 balls with 11 fours and two sixes. This was a typical Kohli innings, where he took his time, and then as the innings progressed, he played a lot of free-flowing cover drives and the lofted shots also started coming in.

This hundred will ease a lot of pressure off Kohli as it has come after a long time, and it also answers the call of the critics at a time when he has been under pressure to deliver in the ODIs. Interestingly, Kohli has also played very few ODIs. This hundred will hopefully help Kohli get back to his free-scoring ways in ODIs as it used to happen back then when Kohli was a master in the ODI format and used to score runs for fun.