Indian cricket star Virat Kohli shook off poor form with the bat and scored his 30th Test century. The 36-year-old was batting on 96 when he got a ball outside leg stump from Nathan Lyon. Kohli swept the ball for four and didn’t seem to know that he had reached the special milestone.
Once he reached his century, Kohli turned to his wife Anushka Sharma and blew a kiss to her. Each and every member in the crowd stood up and applauded the innings played by Kohli as he waited for his century for over a year. The last century for the former India skipper was against West Indies in 2023.
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Jasprit Bumrah decided to declare the innings at 487/6 with an overall lead of 533. Earlier in the day Yashasvi Jaiswal had scored his 4th Test ton before falling for 161 runs from 297 balls. This was the third century of the year for the young batter who has been in tremendous form with the bat in the Test format.
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KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal came out to bat on the third day of the first Test match in Perth with the score on 172/0. The pair added 29 runs more to their overnight score before Mitchell Starc had KL Rahul were caught behind for 77 off 201 balls. Devdutt Padikkal batted for 71 balls to score 25 runs with 2 fours before he was caught by Steve Smith off Josh Hazlewood.
Virat Kohli then joined Jaiswal as a pair added 38 runs for the third wicket before Jaiswal's wicket at 161. Rishabh Pant was out stumped off Lyon as the Indian wicketkeeper went needlessly down the track. Dhruv Jurel was out for just one when he was out LBW to Pat Cummins with the ball staying low.
Washington Sundar and Kohli then added 89 runs for the 6th wicket before Sundar was out for 29 to Lyon. Nitish Kumar Reddy played with an aggressive frame of mind and was not out on 38 off 27 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. Reddy and Kohli added an unbeaten 77 runs for the 7th wicket which came off 18.4 overs.