Virat Kohli had gone 41 innings without a test hundred
Half-a-dozen Test half-centuries in that lean period and centuries in other formats did little to address the concerns of his fans who have only high expectations from someone who now has 75 international hundreds, second only to compatriot Sachin Tendulkar’s 100.
Like so often in the past, Kohli did not race to his century but rather constructed it even if it meant running hard between wickets under a harsh Ahmedabad sun with temperatures hovering about 37Such was his discipline that Kohli went 161 balls without hitting a boundary, preferring to accumulate runs in a risk-free way.
The only blemish in Kohli’s 364-ball knock was towards the end when Peter Handscomb dropped him off Nathan Lyon when the batsman was on 185.
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