4 times Virat Kohli scored an ODI century coming to bat at 0/1

#2 160* vs South Africa, Cape Town, February 7, 2018

Simply acknowledging the appreciative crowd has taken over his over the top celebrations of the past

Stand-in skipper Aiden Markram won the toss and invited the Indians to bat first amidst torrid conditions as Cape Town was zeroing towards the Zero Day which would mean a drought condition in the major South African city. Ironically, the city became witness to a flood of runs by the Indian skipper who ended up playing one of the better knocks of his career.

Kagiso Rabada got rid of Rohit Sharma in the first over and Kohli walked in to accompany an aggressive Shikhar Dhawan. After surviving a scare when he was yet to get off the mark, Kohli got into the groove by playing some eye-catching drives.

As Dhawan attacked from one end, the skipper accumulated from the other. The Proteas managed to pick up wickets in the middle overs and squeeze the scoring rate but what they could not do was see the back of the batting master.

Hardly does anyone else pace an innings as well as Virat Kohli does and this quality of his was on full display in this innings in which is upped the ante at just the right moment. Amidst hot conditions, he ran 100 of his 160 runs, a testament to his fitness levels and justification to the parameters he sets for his teammates.

With 14 hits to the fence, two of which landed across the rope, Kohli ensured that his 34th ODI hundred was a daddy one as India inched past 300 in their quota of overs.

While defending the total, Kohli’s ever dependable wrist spin duo of Chahal and Kuldeep spun a web around the home team as they picked up 8 wickets between them and India went on to win the match by a mammoth 124 runs.

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