India vs Australia 2023

'Return of THE GOAT' - Fans can't keep calm as Virat Kohli hits 28th Test century against Australia, his first in 1205 days

Virat Kohli ended his century drought in the longer format after scoring his 28th Test century on Day 4 of the fourth Test against Australia.

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The crowd at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad had a moment of sheer jubilation when Virat Kohli ended his century drought in the longer format after scoring his 28th Test century on Day 4 of the fourth Test against Australia. Resuming from an overnight score of 59, Kohli took time to reach the milestone. In fact, it was his second slowest Test 100 in terms of balls as he took 241 balls to end the 1205-day wait.

The ace batter has been going through his worst patch in the past few years but has found his rhythm in the shorter formats with centuries and a match-winning knock against arch-rivals Pakistan in the 20-20 World Cup 2022. However, Kohli has not been able to play an impressive innings in the Test format, failing even in the first three Tests of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

His last Test century was against Bangladesh in the pink ball Test at the Eden Gardens in November 2019. Kohli, who has carried the Indian batting unit for years, faced criticism from former players and fans for his poor run in whites, but finally ended his century drought in the first innings of the fourth Test to smash his 75th international hundred.

The relief after scoring the century was evident in Kohli's gesture as he took off his helmet and kissed the ring before acknowledging the applause from Ahmedabad crowd and his teammates.

India takes aggressive approach to add quick runs

Speaking of the match, at the time of writing, India are 443-5, trailing by 37 runs in the second session on Day 4. India are going well at the moment with set batter Virat Kohli and Axar Patel at the crease. The hosts now started to take an aggressive approach, adding some quick runs.

Earlier, Jadeja throwed his wicket away by trying to take on spinner Todd Murphy. But then the wicket-keeper batter KS Bharat carefully started his innings with Kohli and then hit some quick runs to put more pressure on his opponent. The hosts will want to score runs faster while Australia will want to wrap up India's innings as soon as possible to seal the series 2-2.

This is how Twitter reacted to Kohli's 28th Test ton:ย 

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