Star batsman Virat Kohli became the first ever Indian cricketer to score a hundred in this ICC World Cup fixture against Pakistan. He reached the milestone with a single off Shahid Afridi in the 42nd over.
The 26-year-old batsman started playing after the fall of Rohit Sharma in the eighth over, reached his 22nd ODI century with a punch off Afridi towards long-on, allowing the packed gathering at Adelaide Oval to rapturous applause. In his 126-ball innings, the right-handed batsman made 107 runs with eight hits to the boundary.
Kohli now has the second most hundreds in ODIs by an Indian. Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 49 hundreds in his 24-year-old career, is still way ahead of the international pack. Kohli took only 119 balls to reach his fourth international hundred at the Adelaide Ova