‘I have been stealing doubles since 2012’: Virat Kohli gives it back to West Indies fielders
As four wickets fell in the afternoon session the West Indies fielders who looked like down and out of the game in the morning session found their voices and started to have a friendly banter with Virat Kohli on day one of the second Test in Trinidad and Tobago.
However, he gave it back when he stole a double and the stump mic caught him saying “I have been stealing doubles since 2012”.
Kohli reached close to a memorable hundred in his 500th International game after the West Indies put up a much-needed fight to limit India to 288 for four at stumps.
Virat Kohli : Stealing doubles since 2012 🤣🤣😂😂 pic.twitter.com/VRqcUbs9iy
— flick (@133notout) July 20, 2023
Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja played some exquisite strokes in the final session and ensured India collected 106 runs in 33.2 overs without losing a wicket.
Overall, 84 overs were bowled on the opening day. Kohli, who got off the mark with a straight drive after consuming 20 dot balls, will go into day two just 14 runs shy of his first hundred in an overseas Test since December 2018.
The majority of his six boundaries came on the off side including a picture-perfect cover drive off a Kemar Roach half-volley in the 57th over. Jadeja was equally solid and matched Kohli when it came to piercing the field through the cover region.
Kohli, who had to work extremely hard for his 76 on a slow pitch in the series opener, brought up his 30th Test fifty with a boundary off spinner Jomel Warrican in the 67th over.
At the start of his innings, a relentless Roach tested Kohli with the fourth stump line but the star batter was able to see off his probing spell.
The opening duo of Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal shared a brisk 139-run stand to provide another perfect launch pad before the West Indies struck four times in the afternoon session to put brakes on India’s scoring rate.
