Ben Stokes: Virat Kohli impressed after seeing Ben Stokes' century innings, shared the tweet and wrote- 'I was not joking'


Posted on 3rd Jul 2023 10:55 am by rohit kumar

Virat Kohli on Ben Stokes Century ENG vs AUS In the second Test match of the Ashes series, Australia beat England by 43 runs, performing amazingly. In the fifth day's play of this match, England captain Ben Stokes surprised everyone by creating a ruckus with the bat.

 

He played a century of 155 runs facing 214 balls. Even though his innings could not win England, he won the hearts of the fans. Not only the fans but Team India's star batsman Virat Kohli is also impressed by the stormy innings of Ben Stokes.

 

Virat Kohli praised the stormy innings of Ben Stokes

Former Team India captain Virat Kohli praised the brilliant innings of England captain Ben Stokes and said that Stokes is the most competitive player he has played against. Despite Stokes' blazing innings of 155, England were defeated by Australia in the second Test by 43 runs.

 

Virat tweeted and wrote, “I was not joking that I consider Ben Stokes the most competitive player. He played an inning of the highest quality, but Australia is still a very good team.

 

Ben Stokes made many records by scoring a century

Let us tell you that Ben Stokes tried his best to win the team by wreaking havoc with the bat on the fifth day of the second innings. He played a fiery inning of 155 runs, but could not win the team. This century is the first century by an English captain at Lord's after 2009. Apart from this, he became the fifth batsman to score the highest individual score for England in the fourth innings. The most runs in the fourth innings for England is in the name of Bill Edrich, who scored 219 against South Africa in 1938/39.

 

Australia takes 2-0 lead in Ashes series

If we talk about the match, then batting first, the Australian team was all out for 416 runs in the first innings. In the first innings, Steve Smith scored 110 runs, Travis Head scored 77 runs and David Warner scored 66 runs. In response, England scored only 325 runs in the first innings. For the team, Duckett scored 98 runs, Harry Brook scored a half-century, Zak Crawley scored 48 runs and Ollie Pope scored 42 runs.

 

After this, in the second innings, the Australian team made a total of 279 and thus England got a target of 371 runs. In this innings, apart from Stokes, only Ben Duckett could do wonders with the bat. Duckett played a stormy innings of 83 runs. At the same time, the England team was reduced to 327 runs. Ben Stokes' century innings went in vain like this.

 

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