The president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) Snehasish Ganguly introduced a gold-plated bat to India’s batting maestro Virat Kohli on his 35th birthday. Virat’s 35th birthday grew to become particular for him as he struck his forty ninth ODI century to equal Sachin Tendulkar‘s tally of scoring probably the most variety of lots of in ODIs.
Virat’s century turned out to be a match-winning one as India received the sport by an enormous margin of 243 runs and South Africa endured their largest loss in ODI historical past when it comes to runs.
The gold-plated had “Happy Birthday Virat” talked about on it. “You are a symbol of dedication and a living proof that age is just a number” was additionally inscribed on it.
The Cricket Association of Bengal took to its Facebook account and posted the photographs of Snehasish Ganguly presenting Kohli with the souvenir together with the caption, “CAB President Snehasish Ganguly today presented Virat Kohli with a gold plated bat that had “Happy Birthday Virat” mentioned on it. Below it was inscribed “You are a logo of dedication and a dwelling proof that age is only a quantity”. Virat also cut a giant cake especially made with a Virat statue atop the dark chocolate cake with blue icing.”
Meanwhile, Virat is now only one century away from changing into the participant to attain probably the most variety of lots of in ODI historical past. With India slated to play a minimal of two video games within the ongoing World Cup, Virat can probably obtain the feat within the days to come back.
India’s subsequent fixture within the marquee match is in opposition to the Netherlands. The Men in Blue will take on the Dutch at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday, November 12. The Rohit Sharma-led facet has already cemented a berth within the semis however who shall be their opponents within the semis is but to be determined.
