• Friday, April 26, 2024

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Kohli’s focus on ‘larger picture’ despite hundred heroics

Virat Kohli

By: Sarwar Alam

India captain Virat Kohli set his sights on team success rather than personal glory after his hundred in the first Test against England was overshadowed by the tourists’ 31-run defeat. Kohli’s magnificent 149 in India’s first innings at Edgbaston was his maiden Test century in England. The 29-year-old, one of the outstanding batsmen of his generation, had managed just 134 runs in 10 innings during five Tests on his maiden tour of England four years ago. Not only did he top that total in one knock in Birmingham, he ended the first of this season’s five-Test series with exactly 200 runs to…

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