On Thursday, the long wait was over for everyone involved in cricket, not just Virat Kohli. Following his most recent three-figure score in November 2019, Kohli waited 1019 days and 83 innings across all forms for his subsequent century, which would be his 71st in international cricket. And it arrived in the least expected format for Kohli. The legendary Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan, who was one of the veterans who had backed Virat Kohli to end his century drought, praised Kohli for his remarkable turnaround before warning him sternly and pushing him to match Sachin Tendulkar’s greatest-ever achievement in cricket.
In a previous phase of his career, Kohli appeared destined to surpass Sachin’s elusive total of 100 hundreds across all formats.
But now that Kohli has the monkey off his back, the goal has been reset, and Akhtar acknowledged on his YouTube channel that the following 29 hundreds will be the hardest and determine his level of brilliance. “Virat Kohli, because you always told the truth, nice things will come your way. Keep in mind that you have been doing this for millennia (these 30-odd centuries will be difficult to come). But don’t lose heart; you’ll go down in history as the greatest. So keep working hard,” he advised.
“I have consistently argued that Virat is the best batter in history. But because he took around 900 days, the next 29 hundreds will be a difficult journey for him.
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