Younger boy has grown right into a ‘Virat’ participant: Sachin Tendulkar after Kohli’s record-breaking ton – Instances of India

NEW DELHI: Attaining the uncommon feat of surpassing your idol in entrance of him is a distinction not many can declare, but Virat Kohli completed exactly that through the World Cup semi-final towards New Zealand on Wednesday.
Kohli notched up a fiftieth ODI century to interrupt Cricket legend Sachin Tendukar’s report at his residence Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Tendulkar praised Kohli, expressing his pleasure {that a} fellow Indian had surpassed his report for essentially the most one-day worldwide tons of.He conveyed to Kohli that he “could not be happier” concerning the accomplishment.

“The primary time I met you within the Indian dressing room, you had been pranked by different teammates into touching my toes. I could not cease laughing that day,” Tendulkar wrote on X, previously Twitter.
“However quickly, you touched my coronary heart along with your ardour and ability. I could not be happier that an Indian broke my report.
“And to do it on the largest stage – within the World Cup semi-final – and at my residence floor is the icing on the cake.”
Kohli had moved stage with Tendulkar’s all-time mark of 49 centuries on his thirty fifth birthday within the World Cup group stage win over South Africa 10 days in the past.

On Wednesday, Kohli went onto make 117 as India piled up 397-4 of their innings.