Former captain of the Indian cricket team and famous as Run Machine, Virat Kohli had created history on this day, in the Cricket World Cup 2023 held last year. Let us tell you that in this match, Kohli played a century in the semi-final match against New Zealand and helped Team India reach the final of the World Cup.

So this was Kohli’s record 50th century in his ODI career. With this century, Kohli became the first cricketer to break the historical record of 49 centuries scored in ODIs by former great cricketer and God of the game Sachin Tendulkar. In the match, Kohli played a brilliant inning of 117 runs in 113 balls with the help of 9 fours and 2 sixes.

India won the match by 70 runs

If we talk about this first semi-final match played at the historic Wankhede in Mumbai, India had won the toss and decided to bat first. Batting first, Team India scored 397 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs.

Apart from Kohli’s century, Shubman Gill played a brilliant inning of 80 runs and Shreyas Iyer played a brilliant inning of 105 runs. In bowling, Tim Southee got 3 successes and Trent Boult got 1 success for New Zealand.

So when New Zealand came out to chase the strong target of 398 runs given by India, it was all out on the total score of 327 runs in 48.5 overs. While batting for the Kiwi team, Daryl Mitchell played an excellent inning of 134 runs, while captain Kane Williamson contributed 69 runs. New Zealand had to face defeat by 70 runs due to other batsmen not scoring runs.

On the other hand, excellent bowling was seen from Team India. Especially from fast bowler Mohammed Shami, he took 7 wickets while conceding 57 runs in 9.5 overs. Apart from Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj and Kuldeep Yadav got 1 success each.

One year of a record-breaking innings in Mumbai#OnThisDay in 2023, Virat Kohli became the first batsman to register 5⃣0⃣ ODI centuries 👏👏#TeamIndia , @imVkohli pic.twitter.com/uwGcxcVbHr

— BCCI (@BCCI) November 15, 2024