IND vs SL 1st Test Match: Embuldeniya gets the massive wicket of Virat Kohli 45(75). Rishabh Pant joins Vihari who is well set after scoring a half-century.
Post lunch session on Day 1 has started well for India. Hanuma Vihari and Virat Kohli brought up a 50 run partnership. Kohli also brought up 8000 runs in tests for India.
However, it was predicted by a fan before the start of the play that Virat Kohli will score 45 runs in 100 balls and become the victim of Embuldeniya in 1st Test match which later became true. This led netizens in the shocked mindset that, is the person from the future or what? Even some also posted some hilarious and astonishing comments under the post.
Some said can you predict my future also. Nevertheless, one of the most active Sports Twitter accounts of Johns was also stunned by this post and he also expressed his words under the post. You can find the tweet below.
Kohli achieved this position on the first day of the first match of the Test series against Sri Lanka in Mohali after lunch on the delivery of Vishwa Fernando. He is the sixth batsman for India to complete 8000 runs in Test cricket. Kohli completed 8k runs in the 169th innings of his 100th Test.
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He is the second cricketer, apart from Ricky Ponting, to reach the 8,000-run mark in the 100th Test.
Sachin Tendulkar leads the list of most run-scorers for India. Sachin Tendulkar (15921), Rahul Dravid (13265), Sunil Gavaskar (10122), VVS Laxman (8781) and Virender Sehwag (8503) are the highest run-scorers for India.
Virat Kohli is at number 5 in the list of players who have scored 8000 runs in the lowest innings for India. Sachin Tendulkar had completed 8 thousand runs in the shortest 154 innings. Current Indian coach Rahul Dravid took 157 innings to reach here. For India, only VVS Laxman had completed 8 thousand runs in more innings than Virat Kohli. He took 201 innings.