Kohli eclipses Tendulkar, shakes up record books with sublime fifty against Bangladesh

Indian cricket team marched to victory in ir final Super 12 game at ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 with a five-run win through DLS method against Bangladesh on Wednesday. Virat Kohli yet again emerged as best performer for Indian lineup as he hit a sensational kck of 64 runs in 44 balls to take India’s score to 184/6. While Kohli broke a unique record with his half-century kck, India went on to defend revised target of 151 runs in 16 overs and continue to be in semi-final race.

En route to his third fifty-plus score in ongoing T20 World Cup 2022, Kohli surpassed Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar to become all-time highest run scorer for India in Australia. Tendulkar is widely regarded as best batsman of his generation and he scored 3,300 runs on Australian soil at an aver of 42.85 in 84 innings. Kohli, on or hand, w has a total of 3,301 runs to his name in Australia in 68 innings at an aver of 55.94. 

Meanwhile, Kohli’s match-winning kck of 64 runs also took him past former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene in a major World Cup record book. former India skipper is w all-time leading run scorer in history of T20 World Cup. He has w scored 1065 runs in prestigious tournament in 23 innings at an aver of 88.75 while registering 13 half-century kcks.

India scripts spectacular win against Bangla Tigers

Kohli remained unbeaten at end of India’s innings with Ravichandran Ashwin on or end. Early on in innings, Kohli and KL Rahul stitched a second wicket stand of 67 runs off 37 balls before KL was dismissed on 50 runs off 32 balls. Kohli n teamed up with Suryakumar to add 38 runs in third wicket stand, before . 4 batter was dismissed on 30 off 16.

While Bangladesh looked firm with ir plans of achieving ir target, heavy showers interrupted game as Bangladesh were 66/0 in seven overs. However, target was revised to 151 in 16 overs for a win, which followed an electrifying fielding effort by KL Rahul to dismiss half-centurion Liton Das. This opened a flurry of wickets for Bangladesh as y ended up scoring 145/6 in 16 overs to end up on losing side.