Virat Kohli’s bat spoke loudly in Ranji, he hit a century of 145 runs while playing for Delhi against UP

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|16-08-2024

Virat Kohli: Today Virat Kohli is considered one of the best cricketers in the world. However, his journey to reach here has been quite inspiring. He has worked hard in domestic cricket before entering the world of international cricket. Kohli (Virat Kohli) has many great innings to his name in first class cricket.

The right-handed batsman once played an innings of 145 runs against UP while playing for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy. Let us once again discuss that historic innings in detail in this article.

When Virat Kohli scored 145 runs

Virat Kohli

Actually this incident is of 24th November, 2009. A match was being played between UP and Delhi. If we talk about this match, then after winning the toss, UP's team decided to bat first. Batting first, this team declared its first innings by scoring 536 runs for 7 wickets.

Tanmay Srivastava and Parvinder Singh scored brilliant centuries from their side.

In response, Delhi's team was all out for just 202 runs in the first innings. In such a situation, this team had to play follow-on. In the second innings, Virat Kohli batted brilliantly from their side. This right-handed batsman took charge of his team by scoring 145 runs in 173 balls. However, this team lost the match by an innings and 22 runs by scoring 312 runs.

His domestic career has been something like this

Virat Kohli has played 329 List-A matches in addition to 145 first class matches during his cricket career.

In first class cricket, he has scored 11097 runs with the help of 36 centuries and 38 half-centuries. Apart from this, the 35-year-old player has scored 15348 runs in List-A at an average of 57.05.

In this, 54 centuries and 80 half-centuries have come from his bat. Let us tell you that he has not played a single domestic cricket match since 2012. However, despite this, his statistics in domestic cricket are as good as his statistics in international cricket.

In first class cricket, he has scored 11097 runs with the help of 36 centuries and 38 half-centuries. Apart from this, the 35-year-old player has scored 15348 runs in List-A at an average of 57.05.

In this, 54 centuries and 80 half-centuries have come from his bat. Let us tell you that he has not played a single domestic cricket match since 2012. However, despite this, his statistics in domestic cricket are as good as his statistics in international cricket.

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