An innings of rare brilliance even for Virat Kohli coupled with a belligerent hundred from Kedar Jadhav ensured that England’s highest-ever total against India was still not enough to take an early lead in the three-match series. Even by modern standards, this was quite a chase by the home side, who won with 11 balls to spare. Not a score of 350 for seven or the loss of four wickets in the first 12 overs proved too stout a barrier for India’s chase. Power and guile, leg side and off, aerial and ground: Kohli’s retort to the England effort was as near complete a white-ball innings as they come. Only near complete, because he succumbed to a rare…

Source: The Times January 16, 2017 00:07 UTC