Virat Kohli breaks yet another Sachin Tendulkar record

By M. Khan -
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The Australian media started calling Virat Kohli a clown for abusing debutant opener Sam Konstas on the first day of the Boxing Day Test. On the first day of the fourth Test match of the series being played in Melbourne yesterday, the Indian batter had a dispute with Australian opener Sam Konstas, who made his debut. At the start of the Test, the 19-year-old Australian opener Sam Konstas batted aggressively against Indian bowler Jasprit Bumrah while doing an extraordinary batting, on which the Indian fielders looked worried. At the end of the 10th over of the match, Virat Kohli and Sam Konstas collided shoulders, which was repeated between the two, but Usman Khawaja and the umpires intervened. After the incident, Virat Kohli was cautioned and fined only 20 per cent of the match fee and given one demerit point. After the incident went viral on social media, there are calls for Virat Kohli to be handed at least a one-match suspension. The Australian media called Kohli a 'clown' clown in Friday morning's newspapers. In the picture, the baby's feeder was also seen in his mouth. A newspaper called The West Australia published the headline of 'Kohli the clown', on which Indian supporters and fans were furious. On the other hand, in the post-day press conference, Sam Konstas called Virat Kohli's collision on the field a mistake, saying that he was adjusting his gloves, and he think Virat hit him by mistake.

Indian captain Virat Kohli has broken Sachin Tendulkar’s record as the latest batsman to reach 19,000 international runs. 

He clocked in the record in his 399th innings during the fourth and final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Cheteshwar Pujara came up with a typically gritty century as India posted 303/4 in their first innings at stumps on the opening day of the fourth cricket Test against Australia here on Thursday.

Pujara was batting on 130 when the umpires decided to call it a day. His 250-ball stay in the middle was studded with 16 hits to the fence. Hanuma Vihari was batting on 39 at the other end.

For Australia, Josh Hazlewood was the most successful with figures of 2/51. Fellow pacer Mitchell Starc and off-spinner Nathan Lyon bagged a wicket each.

India are 2-1 up in the series.

Brief scores:

India (first innings): 303/4 (Cheteshwar Pujara 130 batting, Mayank Agarwal 77; Josh Hazlewood 2/51) at stumps on Day 1 vs Australia.

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