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00:00not enjoyed his time here in Kolkata Birat Kohli averaging just under 14 but
00:08that career average almost 50 I think you could say he's got unfinished
00:13business here at Eden Gardens and that has dropped over the last few months
00:19wasn't very consistent down in Sri Lanka and even leading into that few too many
00:25failures to what he would have liked
00:40nothing since this morning all was in the air briefly just to the left of the
00:47Kwella and Kohli gets off the mark was on a pair that was quick tough for the
00:57Kwella to pick up because gets blinded by Kohli's body
01:06Kohli will argue he played that nicely actually he's got it off the middle of the
01:09bat a little too fine for his liking but which is also has also been a keeper there
01:16you are nice and cool he's got enough bat behind it we'll come back for a couple
01:21and we'll go back to three
01:34that'll give him confidence your balance has to be perfect even though it was
01:40right up there just pushed that down punched it down past the bowler I was in the air briefly but
01:55that is just a little pit stop on its way to the boundary
01:59yeah there was some excitement particularly around the bat
02:05the gentleman behind the bat I don't think this was a long way away and it certainly was in the air for
02:13a decent length of time
02:19just that slower natured pace so Kohli threw the shot too early
02:23fortunately the placement was okay the cheers as much for the boundary as for the fact that
02:29the international level has got great numbers in all three formats had a great 2017 and it's a game
02:36change in all those three format where is this going to the right of the field of the four well done good shot that
02:43some aggression from Virat Kohli from the Indians
02:48where Gamaga has been leaking runs
02:51the only time he's getting dot falls is when he's bowling the uh
02:55the bouncer away from the uh batsman but at his pace about 129 kilometers for our bowling
03:02a little bit short a little bit wide he's going to get hit for boundaries
03:13nice shot we don't call his special take four
03:20yeah absolutely magnificent strike
03:25yeah colin maybe that's the shot that starts him into his stride he's full stride
03:33not much movement of the feet but it didn't matter because it was slightly over pitched his hands went
03:37through the ball showed the maker's name
03:45stroke
03:49oh through the gap he went for it did coli
03:53it was uh element of risk involved picks up a boundary
03:57streak from virad koly two people in the deep to protect that boundary it's a definite plan
04:07bowl outside the off sump gamma get throwing one up thankfully for virad it didn't go to anybody
04:14the slip and a gully also happens to be his highest score in calcutta
04:29work away from outside off very fine down to the boundary for four and a test match half century
04:36at eden gardens for the indian skipper virad koly 15th overall 268 for five
04:50he's worked hard for it
04:5880 balls it's taken him it's gone on to make 1700s
05:05justice 15 so more often than not when he gets to this point
05:08it's one of those who knows to make it big
05:20he's taken that from outside off stump
05:30deflecting that fine
05:34not overly excited he's on a track that's still getting the ball to do a bit
05:41those runs will come in handy
05:42first ball the new ball is gone for four well we'll see won't we harsher whether this
05:50wicket still has got it a bit in it with the second new ball now i've been taking
05:56any movement yeah a little bit you only need it to be an inch inch and a half to take the outside edge
06:04of the bat certainly hit the outside edge of the bat there in that case virad koly
06:09prompted a little reaction there always hungry for wickets lackmail
06:22beautiful it's a little squarer than his classic cover drive but it still speeds to the boundary
06:29yes there's a short extra cover for the uh ball that might stop on him
06:33but uh if the ball is going to be pitched up and that's what luckman's trying because he's got two
06:38slips in position his out swinger is a pretty good out swinger this one hasn't really moved
06:43bad face he is opened at the last moment virad koly koly is also sensing the fact that he doesn't
06:48have much batting left there's bovnasher kumaru can be a stubborn player so he knows that to for
06:53india to be in safe waters
07:02oh that'll be close that'll be close the finger is on its way up and straight away he has reviewed
07:09i don't know if he's reviewed because there's one left he's the last recognized batsman
07:12no things as an edge original reason he suggested it was an edge the front foot please
07:20fair delivery front on please
07:27now one more time
07:33show me the ultras please
07:34yeah
07:43oh yes clear spike when ball touching the bat here
07:49yes joel you can reverse your signal and not out please
08:01oh look what happens now he's very very angry so i'm a luckman
08:06because he wanted to bowl those two balls at bhubanesh of kumar instead he's considered a boundary to
08:10koly well his emotion has just let the get get the better of him there as the 300 comes up for india
08:16he's really frustrated with kumagi loose road but then followed up by a loose delivery
08:26it's understandable he's bowling his heart out he expects uh his uh bowling uh teammate to uh be uh
08:34just a little bit considered about that that throw was an ordinary throw
08:38there's a fielder there who will let it roll gently underneath in sri lanka
08:48need to win these minutes it's a game of hours but they're letting it go in minutes here
08:54lakmal
08:57pass ballers having boulder and over look to get a bit of a breather down at deep third man or deep
09:02fine leg they do not want to be chasing chasing to their wrong side he's a right-hander he's a
09:09had a knee problem and look at that that's a pretty ordinary effort
09:17this is a shot you see so often in limited over cricket as well but it's a lovely lovely shot
09:23we've talked about him being bottom-handed he has just converted that from offside
09:27to a mid-wicket boundary and that's why such a difficult batsman to bowl too because this really
09:32should have been played on the offside it's outside the off stump but look he's brought the bottom
09:36hand into play and he's flicked it away past rangana he stepped down the pitch as well trying to tell
09:44shanaka you don't scare me you don't have the pace it's gone down the pitch from outside the
09:50off stump he's played it's a magnificent shot that from the indian captain
10:01wow as we said he can do it in three shots the first one's gone for six
10:08moves into the 90s batting on 92 is an incredible clear it's a game changer in t20 cricket as well so
10:15he'll get into that mode t20 mode and that was an incredible shot literally at 86 and you've seen
10:23suranga lakmal bowl so well a couple of steps towards him and then a wonderful inside out shot
10:32his timing has been precise today without goalie a fantastic hit he's in that zone
10:38batting on 98 field is inside and he goes for it grand style and it's a big one to get to 100
10:52and it means a lot to him familiar reaction from virad cool his 50th international 100
10:57he's the 18th test match 100 and 11th as captain
11:00and they have declared and he runs back and he'll come running out as well and give sri lanka a bit of
11:09a scare so the lead 230 we're not going to get 100 and it is sparkling 100 and he got really fired up
11:18when he lost saha and ashwin and after that we saw the best of virad cool he well played
11:22uh that's the most hundreds by a captain in test match cricket equaling sunil gao
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