Key Highlights :
1. Kohli reached his 28th Test century in Kolkata, in 2019.
2. He played his role to perfection, and his end was sealed shut.
3. Ravindra Jadeja, compact on the third evening, was like a cat on a hot tin roof.
4. Defending clumsily enough to bring the LBW into play, he charged the bowler, twice narrowly missing the mid-on fielder before holing out.
5. PTI described the match as a classic Vijay Amritraj line, when describing a match point at Wimbledon.
6. Irrespective of the players, the situation or the occasion, Amritraj would bring it down to the time the two players had been on court.
7. Similarly, it’s been 24 matches, 42 innings, 1205 days, and 2633 balls for Kohli to move from his 27th to 28th Test century.
8. On a pitch where the bounce was largely true and the turn quite even off the pitch, you needed something special to dislodge Kohli.
9. The cornerstone of his innings was the whip.
10. Kohli was not just sublime with the bat, he read the match situation and played it to perfection.
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