Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25: Virat Kohli’s century at Perth shows the old lion still has the hunger and the roar
The HinduCurrently, if cricketing reputations have to be made and legacies burnished, then it mandates fine performances in Australia. His unbeaten 100 against Pat Cummins and his men during the first Test at Perth’s Optus Stadium, was posted after openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and K.L. Except for one quest to strike the red cherry wide outside the off-stump in the early part of his knock, Kohli was the monk who preferred serenity and later he became the pirate who broke the rules. Not exactly an ageing Tendulkar against Dale Steyn, but Kohli still finds ways to stay relevant even if his numbers over the last few years may not entirely do justice to his talent. To wrest a three-figure yield in the first Test against the doughty Aussies is a message that the old lion still has the hunger and the roar.