‘A special knock on special occasion!’ – Fans elated as Virat Kohli becomes first player in history to score century in 500th international appearance

Former Indian skipper and modern-day batting great, Virat Kohli has achieved a new milestone with his 29^th Test century in the ongoing second and last of the two-match Test series against West Indies. With this century, Kohli has become the first-ever cricketer in the history of the game to score a century in the 500^th international appearance.

Apart from this, he has also become the fastest to score 76 international centuries as he completed this milestone in the 500^th international match. The 34-year-old surpassed the former legendary Indian batter Sachin Tendulkar and former Aussie great Ricky Ponting. Earlier, the record was on Sachin Tendulkar’s name who had 75 centuries in 500 international matches.

Subsequently, the cricket fans were also elated and overjoyed following this historic achievement by one of the most successful batters ever played the game for India. Fans took to the micro-blogging site Twitter to shower their love and praise on Virat Kohli for his illustrious and celebrated career of 15 years with another feather in the cap.

Here’s how fans reacted:

Speaking of Kohli’s knock in the ongoing second Test against West Indies, he got dismissed in a run-out on the individual score of 121 runs to establish India in a commanding position in the match.

Talking about the current action of the match at the Port of Spain in Trinidad, India had posted a total of 373 runs for the loss of 6 wickets at the time of lunch on the second day of the match. At the time of filling this copy, wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan and star all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin were there in the middle on the individual scores of 18 and 6 runs respectively.

The veteran pacer Kemar Roach has scalped two wickets for West Indies so far in the first innings. Other than him, Shannon Gabriel, Jomel Warrican, and Jason Holder also claimed one wicket each for the hosts.

Earlier on day 1 of the match, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma and his young opening partner Yashasvi Jaiswal contributed with crucial half-century knocks of 80 and 57 runs respectively.