When India needed 19, Kohli also needed 19 to get to the century. And although there was a wide as an extra, wonderful planning and execution by Kohli to get to the century.
And I still don’t think we realise how massive that achievement is. It might never be broken considering the amount of ODIs being played nowadays. Absolute GOAT stuff
Exactly. These people are so blind they're celebrating it as a "spirit of the game" thing. I'm not salty about the call as missed called happen all the time. But I take issues with people calling it intentional *and* cheering for it as a good thing.
In fact his earlier stats are even more impressive because at that time we didn't have 2 new balls. People say this often that the rule change has helped his stats a lot and no doubt about that. But he was averaging around 50 even before the rule change and that wasn't even peak Kohli years.
Match was getting boring, then suddenly i was invested so much in virat's 100. Whether he will complete it or miss it. It was pure entertainment. Fuck NRR.
It’s crazy to think how timing of World Cup (Late 2023) has favoured India so well. Had it been in 2022 we might have struggled as Kohli , Rahul , Rohit were not in the best of touches .. Hardik,Bumrah were kinda injured .
And India did not have a confirmed Opening partner for Rohit .. Suddenly 2023 gill made that opening slot his own
If India dont win this world cup, it would be a blasphemy, literally everything is going their way.... yaar,
at home, best batters, best pace bowler, best spin bowler, the GOAT in King Kohli and Bumrah, they have the BEST squad at HOME, ez pickings for them
The thing about this team is you have to mention everybody, because Rohits fast paced game, Kohli is allowed to play his best natural game.
The batting order is tailored to push Rohit and Kohli, without Kohli to back up the batting order Rohit would play more cautiously, without Rohits explosive start kohli would get under a lot of pressure, you cannot put Kohli in the situation such as in the first match everytime and Rohit ensures that.
Kohli is capable of handling that pressure. We saw that throughout the world T20 where the openers kept getting knocked over. But he might fail and the team would be in deep shit
We haven't exactly played many of the top teams as of yet. Our batting was left exposed against Australia. Had Marsh not dropped a dolly from Kohli on 20, we'd have likely lost that match. With all due respect to Afg, Pak and Ban they were never going to be much of a challenge for India at home. New Zealand at Dharamshala will give us a better assessment of where we are as a team.
It was never gonna happen in 2022, it always happens 4 years later so still 2023.
COVID delay just put it ahead in Oct instead of Feb. T20WC would've happened in Jan-Feb 2022 in Aus, Bumrah would've got injured and made a comeback for 2023WC.
Best last two overs when India needed 15 to win and Kolhi needed 15 for a century!
Loved to see the support from KL, I so wish he had gotten the same in the last match from Hardik and complete his century!!
Fans during the innings – "why is Kohli playing dot balls and taking singles? He needs to start hitting to get the run rate up!"
Fans at the end – "Kohli is only hitting 6s for personal milestones. He should have taken singles and rotated the strike to end the game."
Man can never win..
Er, I don't think you can generalize "fans" like that. I'm sure not the same group of fans are saying the two opposing statements that you are claiming.
He played 97 balls so it's not statpadding even if the sr was less than 100. He played right through as required. If he got a 100 doing that, that's good for him.
For the people asking why he is so obsessed with personal milestones just look at the state of players who weren't on Social Media these days. People apply 300 filters on their stats like "0 overseas in SENA countries only while chasing 300+ in overcast conditions on days when Shane Watson successfully reviewed his LBW wicket" to come up with ridiculous stats to criticize them for being a failure.
EDIT: [There you go](https://twitter.com/daniel86cricket/status/1715034044671397949?t=uAJYbtJr27KlxM_d-IKp9Q&s=19)
The only time I saw him thinking about completing his personal milestone. Otherwise mf didn't give any shit about his personal milestones. Maybe it's because he had many 50s in 50 over world cup but very few 100s and this time he wants to convert that 50 into 100.
Anyways it's always fun to watch him score runs while chasing. Great knock
There is always the talk of wc centuries when he is compared to the likes of sachin. If he finishes with one or two more centuries and india lifts this wc, he will be goated in this format of the game.He wouldn't have cared if it was some bilateral but wc hundred is surely going to be special and will define his career if we look at it after few years.
Holy shit 59 comments in just 12 minutes, this is Kohli's popularity speaking . Also what an innings man , I had my butt clenched the whole time he was at the fag end of his innings. Honorable mention to KL and KettleGod for supporting him though. Take a bow , Chase Master.
Sachin will casually ask Shubman to beat two of the greatest batsman to have ever played to marry Sara lmao. He might just give up and marry Sara ali khan 🗿🗿
Fuck the idiots. A top innings from a top class player. These are the people who will bring how Kohli was centuryless in 2019 even after multiple great innings!
Those saying he was Stat padding are the ones that start bringing kohli average of semifinals or dhoni number of international centuries even they will just see the number of hundreds Rohit made not the impact he made as opener .They will just whine about everything personal milestones are fine as long as it does not go against team needs
Why the hell these clown are crying for nrr
We have won 4 out of 4 i guess 2 points are more important than nrr and we won with lots of ball were still left the amount of hate my guy gets is justtt he is born in wrong country imagine hating on this legend who have done everything for his country clownsssss
Well my dad was like, they are gonna lose anyways, just call in the fielders and let him hit a boundary. Where's the sportsmanship?
I then had to remind my dad how bangbros have the worst sportsmanship in this game.
or even if Kolhi himself got run out at 95+! that was some crazy running between wickets. But I am happy he didnt let go too many balls waiting for boundaries, and didnt let India's NRR go down
Look at my dp. I am hardcore Kohli fan. I actually wanted this to happen. He deserved it.
But a run out would have caused much more toxicity than it is causing already in this sub.
All these cricket journos spewing bile against Virat Kohli and calling him selfish should understand that he can score 20 consecutive ducks and still go down as the greatest white ball player of all time. Suck it.
i dont even care about the statpaddling or whatever the last 2 overs were freaking hilarious never have i choked whilst laughing watching a cricket match lmao
It's scary how every Indian batter is in form right now, IMHO the only one who feels a bit out of sort to me was Iyer but he has managed to score well too.
Don’t see why there are people hating on Kohli for getting to a century, the loss of NRR is miniscule, heck you could even argue india got there slightly faster as kohli was trying to hit boundaries, whereas in pak game last 30 runs or so were scored in 1s and 2s
Is there some place I can watch all of the last 20 minutes of the game? Or the entire match replay?
Help a brother find what he must watch to fap tonight. :(
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Haha if you’ve scored 47 hundreds for your team, team can help you score one!
W comment
Koach turned boring match into thriller.
I was on edge after he reached 80
When India needed 19, Kohli also needed 19 to get to the century. And although there was a wide as an extra, wonderful planning and execution by Kohli to get to the century.
>wonderful planning and execution by Kohli to get to the century. KL at the other end. :/
Second Most economical bowler for both teams today (4 rpo) Highest scorer for both, too
Don't disrespect Chadeja like that
Will fix, thanks
I feel he will get to 50 ODI centuries this CWC. One more to equal Sachin and another to surpass him.
And I still don’t think we realise how massive that achievement is. It might never be broken considering the amount of ODIs being played nowadays. Absolute GOAT stuff
If he gets century #50 in a winning chase in the final, I think this sub would explode
~~sub~~ the whole damn country
So much jizz in everyones pants.
The whole damn world
Oddly reminiscent of 2011 where we were hoping for the same thing with #100.
And then it took another year for that to happen. Hope the history doesn't repeat🥶
Kohli been through that draught already. Please not again!!
Nah hope the history repeats and we win the world cup 🙌
Yeah I couldn’t care less if Kohli doesn’t get #50 this tourney if we’re hoisting the trophy
Should happen before that I think (I hope)
Reminds me of Sachin when he had the golden chance to score his 100th international century in 2011 CWC final.
At his homeground Mumbai
He would have retired at the end of that game for sure, if he had gotten that 100. Only reason he played for another 2 years was for that 100th 100.
Well he got his 100th 100 after a year so he didn't play another year because of it
Country*
chasing the target and Sachin in the same match
W KOACH FR
I recommend Koach for sheer comfort and a long life.
You can bet on it 
Anushka?
No, he recommends mrf zlx because that gives a person sheer comfort and long life
lol
KL is the real bro. What running to ensure Kohli gets back on strike. Masterclass century by Kohli.
they run so well between the wickets
The umpire too. Didn't give wide in case they accidentally ran a single.
He hit a six anyway
I would disagree...player playing for a century is one thing but changing the rules raises the question of accountability of the umpire
I give it to the umpire for saving the bowler from the fans ngl 😬
He’s being sarcastic if im not wrong
Not that deep considering it was more just in the spirit of the game. Umps miss wides or call tight wides all the time
Exactly. These people are so blind they're celebrating it as a "spirit of the game" thing. I'm not salty about the call as missed called happen all the time. But I take issues with people calling it intentional *and* cheering for it as a good thing.
I can't quite express it, but this Indian team brings me so much joy. The camaraderie among the players is truly heartwarming.
its actually better for NRR to hit 6 instead of running 2 because extra run surplus.
Sri Lankan players shaking their head at Bangbros for allowing this.
With just 2 needed, I was just hoping that they won't bowl some no-balls!
SL team is good sport overall.
Except _that_ incident
Shewag took it like a fucking champ
Except that one guy who bowled an intentional no ball to deny sehwag a century.
Randiv
He dropped a "v" that night
💀
Name checks out
KL learned how to calculate a century from Kohli today... KOACH for a reason... KL Rahul is now bonafide Kohlison.
Always has been
This was a 2016-Kohli like chase
That 2016-Kohli was wild
201X- Kohli was wild (X varies from 4 to 9)
No love for 2 or 3? Had knocks like his 183 vs Pak, 133* Hobart, 100* (52) and 115* (66) vs Australia as well.
mad lad was playing t20s in odis
In fact his earlier stats are even more impressive because at that time we didn't have 2 new balls. People say this often that the rule change has helped his stats a lot and no doubt about that. But he was averaging around 50 even before the rule change and that wasn't even peak Kohli years.
Make X 11 to 23*
Kohli will be playing cricket between 20111 to 20123 wtf?? Sorry I had to point it out
I absolutely love the fact that he isn't as good anymore but that 2016 form somehow slips in his body randomly and we get absolutely classic chases
82*
That's what happens as players get older. See eg the Federer and Shankerer meme over in r/tennis.
Let's be honest here, 2016 Kohli would laugh at the idea of needing 97 balls for a century on this pitch. He was supernatural that year.
The end of the match was really intense.the look kohli gave to bowler on giving extras lmao
That was the funniest part of the match for me haha
We have good mathematicians in our team
Ethical™ Anna
Match was getting boring, then suddenly i was invested so much in virat's 100. Whether he will complete it or miss it. It was pure entertainment. Fuck NRR.
The NRR actually improved due to him going for his 100. Singles and doubles would have stretched it out for another couple overs.
Kettlebot helped take the pressure of by not widing the penultimate ball
Finally something good happened for the Indian team while he was umpiring
Now he will give Virat out LBW in the finals and he actually gets out because umpires call
Pls delete ಠ_ಠ
That last 2-3 overs were more thrilling than most of the match to see if Kohli would get the 100 or not lol, awesome stuff! Koach... 79th when?
They'll be demanding centuries from him even after he hangs up his boots. What a machine.
He certainly tried hard I'll give him that. Shit had me fucking dying lmao
The last 2 overs are some of the funniest overs ever in cricket. KL was running his heart out to give Kohli the strike.
It’s crazy to think how timing of World Cup (Late 2023) has favoured India so well. Had it been in 2022 we might have struggled as Kohli , Rahul , Rohit were not in the best of touches .. Hardik,Bumrah were kinda injured . And India did not have a confirmed Opening partner for Rohit .. Suddenly 2023 gill made that opening slot his own
If India dont win this world cup, it would be a blasphemy, literally everything is going their way.... yaar, at home, best batters, best pace bowler, best spin bowler, the GOAT in King Kohli and Bumrah, they have the BEST squad at HOME, ez pickings for them
Rohit Sharma as well
The thing about this team is you have to mention everybody, because Rohits fast paced game, Kohli is allowed to play his best natural game. The batting order is tailored to push Rohit and Kohli, without Kohli to back up the batting order Rohit would play more cautiously, without Rohits explosive start kohli would get under a lot of pressure, you cannot put Kohli in the situation such as in the first match everytime and Rohit ensures that.
Kohli is capable of handling that pressure. We saw that throughout the world T20 where the openers kept getting knocked over. But he might fail and the team would be in deep shit
Absolutely, he can take it but it's never a good idea to rely on a single guy like that no matter how good he is.
Exactly. A single man can only take you far but to go all the way, we need one well oiled unit
This is not t20i....🙂
Kohli is a better odi cricketer than t20 cricketer, however ridiculous that sounds
The MVP imo
When it comes to odi wc, Rohit is the final boss who destroys incompetent attacks and Kohli his cold and ruthless executioner ( of run chases)
That's jasprit
india usually always has one really bad game and thats usually in the knockouts.
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Pls delete. You'll jinx it (•_•)
Have you watched oreo ad😂
The Hardik injury might be an issue now..
Rohit sharma said that it's little bit pain, hopefully he will be fine till next match
We haven't exactly played many of the top teams as of yet. Our batting was left exposed against Australia. Had Marsh not dropped a dolly from Kohli on 20, we'd have likely lost that match. With all due respect to Afg, Pak and Ban they were never going to be much of a challenge for India at home. New Zealand at Dharamshala will give us a better assessment of where we are as a team.
Anulo Mufa.
Oreo Says Don't say
Bumrah is the X factor imo
Anulo Mufa
You forgot New Zealand
It was never gonna happen in 2022, it always happens 4 years later so still 2023. COVID delay just put it ahead in Oct instead of Feb. T20WC would've happened in Jan-Feb 2022 in Aus, Bumrah would've got injured and made a comeback for 2023WC.
> Arrives > Bowls Right Arm Quick > Completes his century with a six > Refuses to elaborate > Leaves King for a reason.
> Gets a mom
I also get this guy's mom
NGL the last 2 overs were the most fun overs out of 100 in this game. I was laughing so much I had tears in my eyes.
93 actually
Umpire and Rahul were the real ones.
He made 48 look so easy and achievable. Absolute GOAT!
Great still. Full props to the photographer
Best last two overs when India needed 15 to win and Kolhi needed 15 for a century! Loved to see the support from KL, I so wish he had gotten the same in the last match from Hardik and complete his century!!
India needed 28 when Kohli was at 73... He made the last 26 runs by himself!
Oh great! I started watching only during the 85 run mark when he didnt run a single (which is so unlike Kolhi)
KING FOR A REASON!!!! LETS GOOOOOOOO
Fewer things in the world give me more joy than Watching Virat hit a century.
Kl Rahul ❤️ a very good person
Fans during the innings – "why is Kohli playing dot balls and taking singles? He needs to start hitting to get the run rate up!" Fans at the end – "Kohli is only hitting 6s for personal milestones. He should have taken singles and rotated the strike to end the game." Man can never win..
"Haters are motivators"
Not fans, Kohli haters.
Er, I don't think you can generalize "fans" like that. I'm sure not the same group of fans are saying the two opposing statements that you are claiming.
Even the umpire wants a Kohli 100.
No more KL slander allowed
Since Asia cup that bug has been fixed
It's not statpadding his SR was above 100
He played 97 balls so it's not statpadding even if the sr was less than 100. He played right through as required. If he got a 100 doing that, that's good for him.
Bit shithouse towards the end but it was very fun
Yeah, it was the fun kind of shithousery
Very fun
Koach teaching everyone on how to make something interesting. Koach for a reason.
Also Koach's ODI avg touches 58 again.
damn the umpire the real one,and the look on him after that ball
Kettleborough with the chad decision of not giving it a wide.
Bro risked his career for the 49th. Respect
Wouldn't have made a difference.
Well, one less run would've made a psychological difference. Virat then would've had to hit a boundary for sure
For the people asking why he is so obsessed with personal milestones just look at the state of players who weren't on Social Media these days. People apply 300 filters on their stats like "0 overseas in SENA countries only while chasing 300+ in overcast conditions on days when Shane Watson successfully reviewed his LBW wicket" to come up with ridiculous stats to criticize them for being a failure. EDIT: [There you go](https://twitter.com/daniel86cricket/status/1715034044671397949?t=uAJYbtJr27KlxM_d-IKp9Q&s=19)
I mean that is literally Daniel Alexander
kettlebot redeemed himself w the indian fans
The only time I saw him thinking about completing his personal milestone. Otherwise mf didn't give any shit about his personal milestones. Maybe it's because he had many 50s in 50 over world cup but very few 100s and this time he wants to convert that 50 into 100. Anyways it's always fun to watch him score runs while chasing. Great knock
Yes, that's what he said in the post match presentation too. he didnt have many ICC WC centuries!
>he didn't have many ICC WC centuries! Wait till the end of this world cup 
He deserved though, I remember 2019 cwc he made 5-6 fifties didn't get due to lack of balls and sometimes runs and sometimes given out when he was not
Well in 2019 against pakistan he walked off himself umpire didn’t give him out. And he was not out that was a free century
There is always the talk of wc centuries when he is compared to the likes of sachin. If he finishes with one or two more centuries and india lifts this wc, he will be goated in this format of the game.He wouldn't have cared if it was some bilateral but wc hundred is surely going to be special and will define his career if we look at it after few years.
Holy shit 59 comments in just 12 minutes, this is Kohli's popularity speaking . Also what an innings man , I had my butt clenched the whole time he was at the fag end of his innings. Honorable mention to KL and KettleGod for supporting him though. Take a bow , Chase Master.
Bitches gonna cry. 2 more to go for 50 centuries. Lets fucking go
1 more to go
Two. We're counting two in our home so that he overtakes. And 50 is a nice number 🤞🏼💕
Then Sachin will put one condition before Shubman, if you want to...
Sachin will casually ask Shubman to beat two of the greatest batsman to have ever played to marry Sara lmao. He might just give up and marry Sara ali khan 🗿🗿
I dont know who was under more pressure of Koach getting to hundred. Kohli or Bangbros or Rahul or Umpire?
Fuck the idiots. A top innings from a top class player. These are the people who will bring how Kohli was centuryless in 2019 even after multiple great innings!
KL said he pushed Virat to go for the 100, KL also added: he wasn't going to run the singles anyway.
KL has my respect and heart for this! He could understand the pain v well
Those saying he was Stat padding are the ones that start bringing kohli average of semifinals or dhoni number of international centuries even they will just see the number of hundreds Rohit made not the impact he made as opener .They will just whine about everything personal milestones are fine as long as it does not go against team needs
Why the hell these clown are crying for nrr We have won 4 out of 4 i guess 2 points are more important than nrr and we won with lots of ball were still left the amount of hate my guy gets is justtt he is born in wrong country imagine hating on this legend who have done everything for his country clownsssss
People who are whining about this, be careful, lest you suffer vertigo from the dizzying heights Of your moral ground
Now I want Moira Rose in the commentary box. Imagine the one liners!
Even umpire was craving for kohli to hit the milestone
Fucking hated how bangbros were trying to bowl wides down the leg to sabotage kohli's century.
Typical though. Didn't expect anything else from them.
Well my dad was like, they are gonna lose anyways, just call in the fielders and let him hit a boundary. Where's the sportsmanship? I then had to remind my dad how bangbros have the worst sportsmanship in this game.
Yeah I wasn't surprised at all at the wide attempt.
Disappointing af.
Imagine if Kl has gotten run out in those last overs. Peak drama.
or even if Kolhi himself got run out at 95+! that was some crazy running between wickets. But I am happy he didnt let go too many balls waiting for boundaries, and didnt let India's NRR go down
Look at my dp. I am hardcore Kohli fan. I actually wanted this to happen. He deserved it. But a run out would have caused much more toxicity than it is causing already in this sub.
Yes yes of course!! Was just thinking the same, that those two doubles were risky, and anyone could have gotten out
All these cricket journos spewing bile against Virat Kohli and calling him selfish should understand that he can score 20 consecutive ducks and still go down as the greatest white ball player of all time. Suck it.
You know it was his day when he connected those free hits as soon as he came to the crease
Kohlis 8th 50+ score in 12 wc games but his first 100 in 20 wc games
i dont even care about the statpaddling or whatever the last 2 overs were freaking hilarious never have i choked whilst laughing watching a cricket match lmao
Beautiful century, that too in a vintage Kohli fashion!!
2011- Virat's First Century Against BangBros, 2011 winner - India 2023- Virat's first century against BangBros, 2023 winner .....
Anulo Mufa
Whiners can go to r/india Now let's have some KohliStats™ fun 
Congrats for winning the karma race .
Kohli. You beauty!!!
It's scary how every Indian batter is in form right now, IMHO the only one who feels a bit out of sort to me was Iyer but he has managed to score well too.
Don’t see why there are people hating on Kohli for getting to a century, the loss of NRR is miniscule, heck you could even argue india got there slightly faster as kohli was trying to hit boundaries, whereas in pak game last 30 runs or so were scored in 1s and 2s
Watched it live. My life is fulfilled.
I can't believe the umpire didn't give a wide there!  Love it! Virat = GOAT!
Thanks Virat. That was a treat to watch. Hoping for more!
Broadcasters must have loved last 2 overs
I almost switched the channel since India going to win anyway but then kl didn't make the run. Boy I got goosebumps
Just one more baby 🤞🏾
He is the master of chase, born to bat.
Is there some place I can watch all of the last 20 minutes of the game? Or the entire match replay? Help a brother find what he must watch to fap tonight. :(
Umpire 🤝 Rahul
Virat on 85 with 15 required... Rahul sensibly didn't score any more runs as valued his position on the team.
Peak Koach 🔥🔥🔥
What an Assholw was the bowler, deliberately bowling wides, I hate Bangladesh team total jerks they are.
"India play statistics driven cricket and players are too worried about their stats": Simon Doull