On this day in 2018: Kohli ton highlights tied ODI against West Indies
The Indian cricket team has been successful enough to come up with some quality cricket in the last couple of years. The Virat Kohli-led team has always possessed some of the finest cricketers in the world and has developed itself into an extremely competitive one in recent times. Maintaining its dominance in both ODI and Test format, India is regarded as one of the heavyweights of the cricketing world.
Let’s talk about one such extremely competitive match where both the teams showed pure class while being on the field. On this day in 2018, India and West Indies locked horns in the 2nd ODI match of the series in Visakhapatnam during the West Indies tour of India. Batting first, India posted a huge total and set a target of 321 for the Windies.
The entire batting line-up put up a below-average show with their bats, but skipper Virat Kohli was in the mood to cause some destruction. He came up with his usual heroics and class to smash a terrific century (157 off 129) and kept pushing the team forward. Ashley Nurse and Devendra Bishoo were most economical for the Caribbean team. Nurse and Obed McCoy picked two wickets each to level up the bowling section of the visitors.
The thrilling chase
Chasing the big target, the opening stand of Kieran Powell and Chandrapaul Hemraj didn’t do any wonder for the side. However, the main fightback began when Shai Hope stepped out in the middle. He kept fighting till the end to ultimately tie the match between the two sides. He played a brilliant knock of 123 off 134 to lend his team robust support and was coupled by the heroics of Shimron Hetmyer, who produced a significant 94 runs off just 64 balls.
Virat Kohli – Player of the match
Talking about the bowling department of the host side, Ravindra Jadeja and pace star Mohammed Shami were economical for the team. On the other hand, Kuldeep Yadav named three scalps to his credit. Though the match ended in a tie, the laudable efforts from both sides grabbed too much attention. Virat Kohli was named the player of the match for his tremendous ton.
The thing to be noted over here is India won the first ODI in the same series by eight wickets. And it was Kohli who received the player of the match honour for yet another splendid century.
