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With one of his greatest ODI performances in the three games against a potent bowling attack at home, Virat Kohli turned back the clock against the Proteas team. The batter entered the series fresh off two ducks on the Australian tour and a fifty in the SCG ODI, but he overcame those setbacks to deliver one of his best ODI series.
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India won the opening ODI match at Ranchi thanks to Kohli's brilliant 135 off 120 balls. He once again scored an incredible ton in the second game at Raipur, proving his detractors wrong with two consecutive outstanding hits.
Virat Kohli fails to match Babar Azam’s feat of three consecutive centuries in ODIs
Interestingly, Kohli's failure to join Babar Azam in an exclusive hundred list during the Vizag ODI was not his fault.
Babar Azam has scored three consecutive ODI hundreds twice in his ODI career. He achieved the milestone for the first time in 2016 and again in 2022. As of right now, he is the only player to reach this exceptional accomplishment.
In the 2018 ODI series against the West Indies, Kohli had already accomplished the record once. He had a fantastic opportunity to do it again on Saturday, but the target was insufficient because he was still undefeated at 65.
Against the South African bowlers, Kohli was at his exquisite best because he had a point to prove, and he succeeded. The great batsman amassed 302 runs in three games at a strike rate of 117 and a Bradmanesque average of 151.
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