The Indian cricket team is going to step into the Sophia Gardens Stadium in Cardiff after almost 12 years. On Thursday, July 16, the second match of the ODI series will be played between India and England on this ground. Captain Shubman Gill’s Indian team, which has taken a 1-0 lead in the series, has a chance to capture it with its second consecutive win. Team India’s star batsman Virat Kohli has a chance to become the highest run-scoring Indian batsman in England, for which he needs only 4 runs.
The Indian team won the first match of the ODI series in Birmingham but in this Virat Kohli The contribution with the bat was nothing special. He could score only 5 runs and returned to the pavilion after being out LBW on the ball of Joffra Archer. In such a situation, Kohli had a chance to break the record of the Indian batsman scoring the most runs in England in the last match but he slipped.
Whose record will Kohli break in England?
Now Kohli will get a chance in Cardiff to make up for what could not happen in Birmingham. When Virat Kohli comes out to bat on this ground, only 4 runs will be enough to make him the number-1 Indian batsman in England. By doing this, he will break the record of former captain Rahul Dravid, who has been the most successful Indian batsman in this country.
Dravid batted in a total of 56 innings in all three formats in England and scored 2645 runs. He scored 8 centuries, while his average was 55. Whereas Kohli has played 74 innings so far and has scored 2642 runs at an average of 40. However, Virat has scored only 3 centuries here. At number three is Sachin Tendulkar, who has scored 2626 runs in 56 innings.
How is Kohli’s performance in Cardiff?
Well, this is not just a record, but Virat Kohli will complete a special century in Cardiff. He will complete his 100 ODI matches in SENA countries (South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia). This will be Kohli’s 35th match in England. However, his effort will be that on this special occasion the Cardiff ground proves to be better for him because in 2014 he could not even open his account in the match played on the same ground.
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