The Indian skipper, Virat Kohli has always been known giving more than 100% on the fielding and his fans got another testimony of the same when he affected a sensational run-out with a brilliant airborne throw to get rid of the Kiwi opener, Henry Nicholls during the 1st ODI of three-match series at Seddon Park in Hamilton on Wednesday.
Henry Nicholls was looking dangerous for the Indian team after scoring his fifty and he was getting some apt support from Ross Taylor while chasing a mammoth target of 348. However, Nicholls’ innings were cut-down short in the 29th over through a brilliant fielding of Kohli.
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Virat led by an example on the field to inflict a brilliant run-out to dismiss the dangerous Nicholls. Ross Taylor dropped the ball and tried to steal a single when the Indian skipper ran furiously from cover, dived to throw and hit the stumps as Nicholls fell inches short of the crease.
Here is the video of the dismissal:
Virat Kohli, you beauty. What an effort to run out Nicholls.#NZvsIND pic.twitter.com/pMW0vrx33X
— 🇮🇳 Aasif/આસિફ (@Bhot_Haard) February 5, 2020
This was not the first time in the New Zealand series that Kohli had affected a brilliant run-out as he did something similar to Colin Munro in the fourth T20I and it turned out to be a game-changing moment in the match.
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Meanwhile, batting first, India reached a mammoth total of 347 runs for the loss of four wickets against New Zealand in the first ODI on Wednesday. Virat Kohli made 51 after walking into bat at No. 3 for India at Seddon Park. During this innings, Kohli went past Sourav Ganguly on the list of players with most runs as captain in ODI cricket. Kohli, with 5123 runs, had gone past Ganguly’s tally of 5104 runs.
Cricket fraternity all across the world was left awestruck with Kohli’s brilliant in-the-air throw to dismiss New Zealand opener.
How many caught #KingKohli's effort live?? #NZvIND #PlayBold https://t.co/I5q3saoGqp
— Royal Challengers (@RCBTweets) February 5, 2020
Virat Kohli or Jonty Rhodes? 🤯
That was a brilliant in-the-air throw from the India skipper!
Nicholls is run out for 78.#NZvIND pic.twitter.com/ggtPqjipTm
— ICC (@ICC) February 5, 2020
Kohli reacted even before the Ball touching the ground pic.twitter.com/nIJVTYFbiu
— Sra-One 🕴🏻 (@_from_india) February 5, 2020
KING KOHLI…
AIRBORNE… ALL THE WAY
Udd kar Udaa Diya 💪🏻☝️ 🙌
😄😄@imVkohli @virendersehwag @SrBachchan pic.twitter.com/Q6asVeCala— Amardeep Hooda (@AmardeepHooda) February 5, 2020
