ODI Asia Cup 2023: The ODI Asia Cup 2023 schedule, schedule and venues are yet to be announced. This year the ACC tournament will be played in the fifty-overs format.
According to the reports, the ODI Asia Cup 2023 will be played from 31st August 2023 to 17th September 2023. Pakistan will host four games at the start and the event will be shifted to Sri Lanka.
The men in blue side who won the last edition of the ODI Asia Cup in 2018 are the defending champions of this year’s tournament. That edition was played under Rohit Sharma’s leadership.
Today we will talk about the former Indian skipper, Virat Kohli, who is the only batsman from India who has scored three ODI Asia Cup centuries.
Virat Kohli also has registered the highest individual score in the ODI Asia Cup twice and he is also the only player to achieve this feat in this tournament.
King Kohli will be a key asset for Team India in this tournament as well. The men in blue will look to defend their ODI crown and get well prepared for the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 in India this year.
This was the best knock played by an Indian player in the ODI Asia Cup history. Virat Kohli took on the fiery Pakistani bowling attack like a boss and helped India to chase down a sniff target of 329 runs.
After the wicket of Gautam Gambhir, King Kohli came out to bat with Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar. The duo shared a much-needed partnership of 133 runs, which got India going.
After Tendulkar was out for well-made 52 runs, Virat shared another partnership with the current Indian skipper, Rohit Sharma. That brought India home comfortably in this do-or-die match.
Kohli smashed his highest individual score in the fifty overs format and also in the Asia Cup tournament. He went past Younis Khan’s 144-run knock against Hong Kong at Colombo in 2004.
Virat Kohli also smashed two centuries and four half-centuries in the edition of 2012, which was also the most by any player in that season. The King has scored 3 ODI Asia Cup centuries and One Asia Cup T20I ton till now and that is also the most by any player from the Indian Team.
Virat Kohli’s magnificent knock of 136 runs was a one-man show against Bangladesh. He single-handedly guided India to a famous win in that match.
India comfortably chased down the score of 280 runs which Bangladesh scored because of a good knock played by Mushfiqur Rahim. Kohli had hit 16 fours and two sixes. He also shared a 213-run stand with Ajinkya Rahane.
This century from King Kohli was the last in ODI Asia Cup. Kohli didn’t play the ODI Asia Cup in 2018, which India won in UAE.
Virat scored a hundred in the Asia Cup event which was played in 2022. He smashed a 122-run knock against the Afghans.
