MOHALI: For the first four hours on Friday, the fairytale script for Virat Kohli’s 100th Test looked like playing out just as he would have loved to. The day started with head coach Rahul Dravid felicitating him on behalf of BCCI with a touching speech with Kohli’s wife Anushka Sharma standing right next to him in the field of play. And when he got going with an absolutely silken on-drive, it seemed he was at his imperious best.
On his way to 45 off 75 balls, he brought up 8000 Test runs before left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya managed to turn one past his outside edge as he tried to punch him off the backfoot and knock over his off-stump. Shell-shocked, Kohli stared at the pitch for a while before he marched back to the pavilion. The wait for his 71st Test hundred got longer.
