Virat Kohli finally won the toss and surprisingly opted to bat first. But as Virat Kohli had already mentioned, he is planning for the 2019 cricket World Cup and keeping that in mind he is willing to take up challenges. India did not get off to a great start as the team lost the rhythm early in form of Shikhar Dhawan.
Dhawan departed at 4 when tried to cut a delivery by Fernando, which found the thick outside edge of the bat. The ball carried all the way to the third man, where the catch was taken by Pushpakumara. But after the initial setback, there was no stopping the Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma partnership. Virat Kohli was scoring boundaries at will and soon brought up his fifty off 34 balls. Kohli had missed out having a steady run in Palekelle as he was dismissed pretty early in both games.
Kohli did not stop at 50 and kept scoring those boundaries. He also hit a six. Rohit Sharma too brought up his 50 in the meantime. Rohit also seems to be in a scintillating form as he was 124 not out in the last ODI.
Kohli brought up his hundred off 76 balls. Here is how Twitter reacted.
Is kohli running towards his first 200 #IndvsSL #Dhoni300 #ViratKohli
— _______________ (@Josephthevalli) August 31, 2017
Will #ViratKohli hit double Hundred? #IndvsSL
— Acquwin (@AcquwinMaximaz) August 31, 2017
aaj #Bhai ka 200 hona chahiye ….chalo kam se kam 150+ hi hona chahiye,,, 121 not out#INDvSL #SLvIND #ViratKohli #4thODI
— #ViratKohli __ (@imBrishi) August 31, 2017
More than Kohli scoring century he scores that before 25th Over which is more ominous sign for Sri Lanka… #SLvIND #ViratKohli #virat
— Virat kohli #SLvIND (@Iam_VkohliFC) August 31, 2017
Will kohli score 200 today. #IndvsSL #Viratkohli #Cricket @ICC @BCCI @imVkohli #India #29thhundred #Century ____
— Avadhesh Mourya _ (@AvadheshMourya) August 31, 2017
With this 6 Virat Kohli has been take off for 200 @imVkohli #ViratKohli
#Dhoni300 @cricketaakash— VBanerjee (@vicky4861) August 31, 2017
Double/Triple century on the cards. #ViratKohli
— pritam dey (@Bin4ryDey) August 31, 2017
#ViratKohli to score 200+ today
Hope he becomes 4th #Indian batsman to do so#KingKohli #Kohli #Virat#INDvSL— Cricket Reviewer (@CricketReviewer) August 31, 2017
Some even have gone on to the extent of predicting Virat Kohli that will go past Rohit Sharma’s high score of 264.
