NEW DELHI: Modern day great Virat Kohli faced a heartbreak at Wankhede stadium on Thursday, missing out on the chance to equal Sachin Tendulkar's record of 49 One Day International (ODI) hundreds again. But he showed his class with a solid 88, off 94 balls, while adding a match-turning 189 runs for the second wicket with young India opener Shubman Gill (92 off 92 balls), who too missed a chance to score a hundred.
Former Pakistan legend Wasim Akram praised India run-machine Kohli, who scored his fifth fifty-plus knock in the tournament, for his batting against Sri Lanka and for the big second wicket stand with Gill after they lost Rohit Sharma early in the first over.
