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00:00I'm in close to 5,000 tests on just 63 matches five double hundreds now to his
00:05credit
00:11you play the shot you don't even before you played it
00:16that's a heck of a shot that what a way to start to give me ball but still
00:23beautifully played Vyrak Kohli we saw this in the last test match Sanjay he
00:28came in straight away Sonny played aggressive cricket a good brand of
00:32cricket something which motivates him just wonder whether this line is bold
00:39because they've still got that feel that once again a very good shot the bottom
00:47hand coming into play from Vyrak Kohli he does use that bottom hand to great
00:51effect so you can power the ball from around the off stump through the onside
00:56he's done it with the turn of course with the spin
01:00you can see that the Chinaman going to turn into his pads and he's played it
01:07from the middle and off stump to the year bounded beautiful shot again
01:12you can see that release from the front of the hand once more you see a single last ball of the
01:26over hundred and four foot two so we've seen the variation of the left arm Chinaman
01:38bowler Santa County bowls that leg spinner from the front of the hand and does that
01:44to very orthodox googly that he bowls take four easily done right in the slot to one of the best
01:55drivers in the business and here you will see that he's used the front and the top hand it's outside the
02:07off stumped and the front hand has come he's made a little bit of room by taking his foot away
02:12well that is a fantastic shot from Vera Coley the game you see we've got two gullies now it's almost
02:23telling that mother bowl a bit wider very clearly not throws his hands through that and the timing of
02:29the man is impeccable that's 50 between these two it's come up very quickly 59 balls well he did
02:37everyone a favor because no one moved not even the fielders it's so well and lots of ball boys here
02:46Russell that's that is never a problem but yeah the red ton of beautiful absolutely beautiful from
03:01Vera Coley just a small gap 5,000 test runs to Vera Coley the 11th Indian to get to this mark yeah the way
03:13that he played that and certainly before he had early in the over certainly suggest this man's in
03:18form if you look at his recent scores you look at the previous test match he's leading from the
03:23front world-class player he's only going to get better fourth quickest to the mark that's in terms of
03:36the chance of Coley reverberating the ground and that happens wherever he goes and this being his home
03:49ground this is how we got to it a classy shot once again timing at its best yeah for me that look at
03:59that high elbow left left elbow there nowadays big bottom-handed players with Vera Coley schools all
04:06around the ground what a play he is Rahul Javid the fifth on that list this one straight to the man
04:19and finally another expensive over 135 for two brilliant absolutely brilliant slightly overpitched and once
04:34again finding the gap to the left of mid on we're out Coley yeah the timing in the shot is unbelievable
04:40it's like I think mishap with the field positioning I think you could measure put him all the way back
04:44but the amount of power he can generate just with that short jab yep driven on the off once again
04:59slightly over pitching put away very nicely by Vera Coley it almost seemed to quicken up that as it gets
05:08into the outfield promise if it's going downhill slightly but again the hands convert Coley doesn't
05:17try and over hit it length in stride they keep getting to the pitch of the ball allowing the ball to come
05:26to him going to it but doesn't try and hit it too hard again it's that straight isn't it creates the
05:32opportunity cheeky very cheekily done yeah using the pace they don't ruin sliding it on a little bit
05:49you're trying to push it through again it's a whip it's a line after the extra cover was pushed back
05:59following that boundary there's a big gap and that's why he was very confident in getting it into those
06:04areas the pace was also there but the flick of the wrists look at home and away oh what a shot
06:18I think we just need to put all our super ladies away because he might be guilty of overusing them
06:23but this is such a good pitch to bat on always has been a very good pitch to bat on and now just
06:32a little bit of the grass is allowing the ball to come on just a little bit quicker as well
06:36he's played it on the up not quite a half folly because it's such a good pitch and then opening the
06:46face of the bat Wow that might run away as well we'll get 50 for Virat Kohli the quickest he's ever got
07:00there in just 52 balls he's made it look like an absolute walk in the park he's made it look like
07:07he is determining where the bowler should go to him today I'm seeing some wonderful batting he's
07:12just once again making it look easy nothing like getting a half century in front of your home crowd
07:19well every ground is home ground for in India is home ground for Virat Kohli but this is where he began
07:27his career as a junior cricketer in Delhi so it's a special delight when you do it in front of your home
07:35crowd that is what I was talking about he's had two back-to-back boundaries but look at the
07:45judgment around the offstand that is where he's got that better this is flicked off the pads the
07:52fielder as is the case in modern-day cricket is square not finer so easy to get that boundary just get a
08:01little bit of a touch and you're going to get a boundary then it was the ball after that which he
08:08left that is what is making him so consistent easy I correct that made it look easy I think we're not
08:23Kohli is just having fun at the moment he's just saying right I think I need to hit one through mid-wicket
08:27haven't been there for a while well come again if he had any ideas of trying to surprise then he
08:36had to get the ball a little higher he also had to bowl it at a little quicker pace at a hundred and
08:42twenty eight point nine kilometers per hour the shots have actually been fragrant the shots you've just
08:49enjoyed watching them so much they scored them all around as he what he came in straightaway with a high
08:58strike strike rate of around the 120s it's come down a little bit now but not by much he's been all
09:05around the wicket down the ground little death touches magic cover drives that'll be more that a shot
09:20outside the off time it's stilling without Kohli you know what I have this great inner desire to be at
09:25the cover boundary and Kohli said okay I'll fulfill your desire the way is batting and the way the pitch
09:36is playing with it not much turn the forward shot like is a luxury that Sri Lanka cannot afford to have
09:42no wrist spinners need a little more protection there again of the back responded for runs to begin
09:55with thought would be a couple of runs this could be more luck month clearly suggesting that he was
10:01unable to stop that board so that's gonna be four runs here we go short again and very kindly he does
10:12not miss out same place with really Vijay Wayne 200 just to cover his left hand and that's the end of
10:21the over India 245 for two the Luan Pereira picks up a single quite easily and gets to his hundred his
10:3220th his fifth versus Sri Lanka 13th as captain and his very first at the Ferocia Kotla and also his
10:41quickest well played Virat Kohli fantastic player meeting India acknowledging the crowd and what a
10:52fantastic innings it's been hopeless you would say from the get-go he's milked it and scored all around
11:00the ground with ease you see the quickest hundred for Virat Kulin once again the hallmark of all his big
11:07scores not a single six the strike rate is a 91 but not a single six and there's that moment yeah we
11:15said earlier they put fielders back on the boundary and stopped his scoring option of a going over the
11:20top but B he's just he's so good he's just gonna keep getting singles and not gonna get bored all day
11:25so there you go you gotta take it a little bit of risk of trying and feeling is mutual but you gotta try and take us I think now you're gonna
11:33look up the scoreboard in a session of two's time they're gonna be on 350 for two they're not taking any risks at all
11:38welcome to the calm box I've been watching this for the last five months yeah they were what almost 245
11:48what was India so this is no surprise I think end up getting 400 run there at that moment already 20 test
11:54hundreds it's gone past 50 international hundreds
11:59saying that he gets all these milestones but it's it that much quicker fastest to 20 hundreds so dawn right up there
12:11there's 55 matches look at the different between him and the rest
12:19will unveil that sweep shot
12:24it's almost as you said right let's do something here we haven't had a boundary for a while
12:29yeah it's been a while
12:30takes that off the stamps
12:35two fielders in the deep but he's picked his spot
12:43with that single
12:49Kohli completes 3,000 runs
12:53as captain
12:55becomes the third Indian
12:59after Mahindra Singh Dhoni
13:01and Mr. Gaviska
13:03more runs for Kohli here
13:11wrong line there from Dana Jay
13:131-1 at 45
13:15what a footwork there
13:17lovely touch from Kohli here just using the pace this might run away certainly be three
13:31good piece of building there
13:35really Vijay comes back for the third
13:37the game to show in there when you miss your line in test cricket
13:41when the player like very cold he's on strike
13:44well set difficult to stop
13:48cut away this time but there is protection for him but Virat Kohli pushing for the second and easily making it
14:01up and over a rank bad delivery and easily put away by Virat Kohli
14:15yeah spinners have got to do their job here and get Sri Lanka through to this new ball
14:21whenever that may be they can't just coast through you've got to be accurate and against players like this they're going to punish you
14:27drop you drop me short yet
14:28and I discover to get them easily in fact my get more now down to two hundred and fifty to
14:43we're out totally 151 another little single ticked over and a very good time
14:49striker of 85 this is Virat Kohli 2.0 there is no extravagant jumping fist
14:58pumping I need to say yes I mean I knew I was gonna get there so why should I
15:04show any surprise I may have been driven there for runs
15:11that's the length to bowl especially to a new batsman to Rohit Sharma that's how
15:17he got Murali Vijayajinkaran as well a bit of swing and that's a good shot
15:27400 comes up for India this is a very good shot because there was a hint of
15:32late swing on that full delivery well the first ball of the second new ball you
15:39don't want that to happen to you as a bowler just a little hint of movement
15:45looking to start the swing from next dump and he does play that does shot very
15:50well bottom and coming into play
15:54blue skies felt a little warmer today than yesterday when we were out there this
15:59morning
16:02slices that away from the field during the deep he'll pick up for but luck my
16:08final shouldn't worry had him reaching for it a little bit of bounce the slips
16:13would have been in business that you've got to understand Sanjay four runs of the
16:17board a little bit more bounce but I've gone to the slips that's the chance you
16:21have to take you've conceded for yes
16:25it's actually sliced it into it a little early
16:29well I guess when you're betting 177 you get one of these from time to time you earn the right not to
16:44have enough close catches because of the way you've batted all along partnership now 51
16:49yeah it was pretty streaky this one no control whatsoever
16:55look at the timing on that you've just seen in two successive deliveries two beautifully timed shots
17:10one the color drive from Rohit Sharma and now this pool with an empty mid wicket
17:14he can't escape punishment if you're gonna bowl that and that to a full toss once again just putting
17:27back to ball team first at the same I'll listen to that Sunday I'll keep a year out for that
17:39here we go Luckman the bowler that's one on 199
17:43that's for the pretty shot gets the single he might come back for the second not sprinting
17:50clearly there's some issue they're physical but at the moment can just enjoy this milestone
17:55yet another milestone six double hundreds all coming in the last 17 months he's had an incredible
18:01calendar year and he's just turning up not just hundreds but double hundreds fantastic
18:09not first captain with six double hundreds and all have come in the last 17 months back-to-back double
18:16hundreds where Virat Kohli that hunger amazing
18:21you have a look at that
18:30well he looks okay to me it's just interesting to see how he's gonna go about playing from now on
18:36sorry Sanjay came up in the last over okay you have people who say it's not the best bowling attack flat
18:52pitch but that is separate from what is achieved you've got a double hundred in the last match to be
18:58able to go out there and do it again especially because the quality of the attack is such few more runs
19:05that's gonna be four runs that's when make mistakes when the challenge is not severe you get lazy exactly
19:12and that is what he doesn't do it's a bit like the end okay didn't matter to him whether he was playing
19:16against a weak bangladesh side he got a double under there Virat Kohli's got two against this side it's all
19:22about just that hunger and staying focused on his own performance oh that is in the air briefly and
19:32he'll get four short fine leg was there for a reason question is was he bending low enough to take those low
19:44half chances the tall man he's played it up in the air see he wasn't bending down I know it's a it is
19:58going the other way as well
20:01and I think generally speaking if you're feeling it that position as well the ball is going to pass
20:15you by your left hand typically on the angle so I think what Angelo Matthews was trying to do there
20:21was shimmy into a position going moving to his left but because it was a fine nick it wrong footed him
20:28you see once you get wrong footed you've got no hope of almost came too far down and checked himself in time
20:39well he called for two he might get four in fact oh that sums it up for Sri Lanka he's done all the hard work he's got there and he just found the ball to the boundary
21:06he's still one and he's a good fielder
21:11they'll be one we saw him take a terrific catch up to Jara in Kolkata moves very well
21:17and he's moved very well he's done all the hard work as Arsha said
21:21glorious once again once again that flick of the leg side of the wrist
21:33he's getting another boundary Virat Kohli
21:37that's the landmark
21:41actually equals it at this stage
21:45he started
21:47this morning with a similar flick
21:52and even after lunch
21:54for me I think this is a mistake for Virat Kohli when he's on 226
22:01you've got to have a mid wicket
22:03for one of the best players if not the best player in the world
22:06and individual scores in Delhi
22:09oh on the move
22:11and nobody moves
22:13oh dear
22:15highest score there for Virat Kohli
22:19career-highest by an Indian captain as well
22:241,000 runs this year as well then
22:28advancing down to Gama gate this is an ominous sight Virat Kohli when he's in this
22:34mood and form he's very much unstoppable
22:39he's not the end of day three here either
22:48well he's given that could be umpire's call on review
22:52it's a point that Simon Dool has been making more and more umpires reckoning that
22:56umpire's call could be the verdict
23:00they're raising the finger let's see how this one goes
23:03at TV Empire to Dave leg before review start from the front foot please
23:17fairly come on frame back yeah I was touching here yeah fairly big yeah fairly big
23:27and looks no bat give me all rights for double check please
23:34yeah no bat ball tracking please whenever you're ready pitching outside impacting line
23:50wickets Nigel you're on screen you can signal out now stay with your decision
24:00that was hitting flush and next time not even brushing like some and being umpire
24:04score which was anyway now it's a Virat Kohli has to depart and look himself
24:11since we had that break we had a standing ovation as he should
24:16it's been another terrific innings he raises back to all corners of the ground shake
24:21of the head suggest that what happened in the last 30 40 minutes or so was
24:28he's unfortunate by 23 for seven
24:32you
24:34you
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