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T20 World Cup: India’s Virat Kohli vs Pakistan (AP)
Virat Kohli smashed an unbeaten 82, his 34th T20I fifty, to help India beat Pakistan by 4 wickets
Indian’s Virat Kohli smashed a 43-ball fifty against Pakistan in their Super 12 clash at the 2022 T20 World Cup in front of 90,000 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. Kohli stayed unbeaten with 82 runs, with the help of 6 fours and four sixes, off just 53 balls to help India get a 4 wicket win.
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Kohli also became the highest rungetter in the history of the shortest format of the game.
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Kohli has had a stellar run against Pakistan in T20 World Cups. He has scored four fifties from five innings against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup clashes.
He smashed an unbeaten 78 from 61 balls in Colombo in 2012, then an 36 not out from 32 deliveries in Mirpur in 2014. He followed it up with an unbeaten 55 from 37 in Kolkata in 2016 and then 57 from 49 deliveries in Dubai in 2021 and reached another half-century from just 43 balls in Melbourne in 2022.
In fact, Virat Kohli is also the first non-Australian to score more than 500 runs in T20I on Australian soil.
Kohli’s 113-run 5th-wicket partnership with Hardika Pandya, who became the first Indian to take 50 wickets and 1000 runs, is the highest for any wicket against Pakistan in T20Is.
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