When Virat Kohli turned to Ravi Shastri to convince BCCI to break a long-standing rule for then-girlfriend Anushka Sharma

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Ravi Shastri compared Virat Kohli’s 169 sound successful the Boxing Day Test successful Melbourne to his caller Test ton against Australia. He said, “In the archetypal game, successful the Boxing Day Test, helium got 160 and astatine the extremity the scenes were same. The flying buss went retired conscionable similar yesterday. She’s been a large enactment for him.”

As Virat Kohli scored his archetypal Test period successful 16 months connected Sunday, the cricketer thanked his woman Anushka Sharma for supporting him “through heavy and thin.”

Kohli said, “I instrumentality pridefulness successful performing for my country. The information that she is present makes it adjacent much peculiar for me.” He added, “Anushka has been close by broadside done heavy and thin. So, she knows everything that goes connected down the scenes. What goes connected the caput erstwhile you don’t play arsenic good oregon marque a fewer mistakes. I conscionable privation to lend to the team’s cause. I americium not a feline who wants to bent astir conscionable for the involvement of it.”