It was just about a year ago when a short-on-confidence Virat Kohli had arrived with the Indian team on these shores. Without a single fifty in his previous eight innings before the first one-dayer against Australia, Kohli’s place in the Indian team was far from certain, especially with the selectors cutting a short rope to youngsters with the World Cup just around the corner.
On that October day in 2010, Kohli turned his fortunes, slamming 118 against Ponting’s men in a stiff chase. Thirteen months later, his love affair with the port city continues to hold strong — his knock of 117 against the West Indians at the ACA-VDCA Stadium on Friday means he now has his two highest ODI scores, and one-fourth of all his international centuries, in Vizag.
Far from the mindset of a failure, Kohli arrived for the second ODI of this five-match series as the blue-eyed boy of Indian cricket. He did his reputation no harm on Friday by once again leading India to a win with his eighth ODI hundred, the fifth such occasion in a chase, and third in the last eight innings. But what is really heartening is the fact that the target of 270 was achieved on the back of Indian cricket and its middle-order’s two brightest prospects, Kohli and Rohit Sharma.
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