Nevertheless, there’s a likelihood that Kohli could be rested within the inconsequential recreation towards the Dutch, contemplating India have already sealed a spot within the knockouts.
The nation’s festive temper has been on cloud 9 after the Indian staff stormed into the semi-finals with out conceding a single defeat in eight matches, which has additionally assured Rohit Sharma & Co a top-place end within the league stage. No matter the outcome within the match towards the Dutch on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday, India will find yourself as No. 1 within the factors desk and tackle fourth-placed New Zealand within the semis on November 15 in Mumbai.
However earlier than consideration strikes to Mumbai, the highlight shall be on Bengaluru, which can also be the house floor of IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore that’s synonymous with its icon Virat Kohli.
On November 5, Kohli equalled Sachin Tendulkar‘s file of 49 ODI lots of with a century towards South Africa in India’s penultimate league match, which additionally took Kohli’s tally of runs on this version of the World Cup to 543.
He’s presently third on the record of run-getters on this match, behind New Zealand sensational Rachin Ravindra (565 runs) and South Africa’s Quinton de Kock (591 runs).
Tendulkar, actually, has already wished Kohli to get his fiftieth ODI century on this World Cup itself.
“It took me one year to go from 49 to 50 earlier this yr. I hope you go from 49 to 50 and break my file within the subsequent few days,” Tendulkar, who celebrated his fiftieth birthday in April this yr, had posted on ‘X’ after Kohli scored 100 towards South Africa.
One other file that’s effectively inside Kohli’s attain on Sunday night is changing into the third Indian after Tendulkar and Rohit to attain 600 or extra runs in a single version of the ODI World Cup. Kohli wants 57 runs to achieve that landmark.
Tendulkar scored 673 runs within the 2003 World Cup and Rohit aggregated 648 runs within the 2019 version.
