Kohli
will
need
just
28
runs
to
overtake
ICC
Hall
of
Famer
Mahela
Jayawardena
as
the
most
prolific
run-scorer
across
T20
World
Cups,
when
he
takes
on
South
Africa
in
Perth
on
Sunday
(October
30).
With
989
runs
already
scored
throughout
all
T20
World
Cups,
Kohli
needs
28
more
runs
to
surpass
all
previous
record-holders.
Mahela
Jayawardena,
a
former
captain
of
Sri
Lanka,
currently
owns
the
record
with
1016
runs.
Despite
a
lagging
start
to
the
year,
the
33-year-old
found
his
rhythm
in
the
Asia
Cup
and
in
the
bilateral
series
matches
against
Australia
and
South
Africa
that
preceded
the
competition.
He
also
got
off
to
a
fast
start
in
the
eagerly
anticipated
match
against
Pakistan
at
the
Melbourne
Cricket
Ground
(MCG)
in
front
of
over
90,000
spectators
in
the
ongoing
ICC
T20
World
Cup
2022.
Australian
legend
and
former
Indian
head
coach
Greg
Chappell
on
Saturday
said
that
Virat
Kohli’s
innings
of
82
not
out
against
Pakistan
in
their
ICC
T20
World
Cup
2022
match
at
Melbourne
Cricket
Ground
(MCG)
legitimised
the
shorter
format
as
an
art
form
and
added
that
late
spin
great
Shane
Warne
would
have
been
proud
of
star
batter’s
knock
had
he
been
alive.
Chappell
called
Virat
Kohli
the
“most
complete
Indian
batsman”
of
his
time
and
further
went
on
to
term
Virat’s
recent
ICC
T20
World
Cup
matching
winning
knock
against
Pakistan
a
“song
by
God.”
If
slamming
his
much-anticipated
71st
international
ton
after
over
a
thousand
days
during
Asia
Cup
2022
was
not
enough,
Virat
silenced
all
the
criticism
and
talks
of
his
place
in
India’s
T20I
set-up
with
this
knock,
that
helped
Men
in
Blue
snatch
an
improbable
four-wicket
win
from
the
jaws
of
defeat.
It
was
a
knock
that
left
Chappell
mighty
impressed.
Writing
in
his
Sydney
Morning
Herald
column,
“None
of
the
greats
of
bygone
eras
could
have
dismembered
an
opponent
so
brutally
without
compromising
the
niceties
of
the
art
of
batting
than
Kohli
did
on
the
last
Sunday
night.
“Kohli
is
a
complete
Indian
batsman
of
my
time.
Only
the
greatest
of
champions
have
the
courage
and
the
intelligence
to
transport
their
imagination
beyond
the
mortal
plane.
Kohli
has
that.
Perhaps
only
Tiger
Pataudi
has
come
close
to
transcending
a
similar
stratosphere.”
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