According to reports, the idea of distributing 70,000 Virat Kohli masks was rejected by the Indian committee. Eden Gardens have a smaller reserve, but given the circumstances, the Bangladesh Cricket Board may have thought it best to err on the side of caution. What if someone wants Kohli’s face on the front and back? Regardless, Eden could have three times its 67,000-person capacity, but the supply and demand equation would still be skewed towards the former.
But even if that doesn’t happen, Sunday is still Kohli’s birthday. What better way to commemorate this than to climb hill 49 and join Sachin Tendulkar as the only batsmen to reach there? It almost happened in Dharamsala and Mumbai, but will Kohli be third time lucky here? In 2009, he played for Mohun Bagan in the CAB Championship final, scoring 121 goals and scoring 184 in the victory.
In sports, numbers don’t matter until they matter. One editing question at Wimbledon is whether she can break Margaret Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam titles. Williams, who won the 2017 Australian Open when she was two months pregnant, played in four Grand Slam finals but failed to reach one before retiring.
Novak Djokovic mentioned the 2021 US Open final before claiming his 24th Grand Slam title. “I was probably overwhelmed by the occasion and the opportunity, but I didn’t perform well,” he said, referring to a straight-sets defeat to Daniil Medvedev that saw him move 20 points clear of Roger Federer A chance at a Grand Slam championship feat.
Pele, who has scored goals for Brazil and Santos since he was a teenager, said in one of his autobiographies, My Life and the Beautiful Game, that approaching 1,000 goals “made me very nervous”. (FIFA disagrees with that figure, but Brazil does, with its federation CBF adding that Neymar broke Pele’s record of 77 international goals, making him the country’s all-time goalscoring record against the national team.)
Bailey said he remained at 996 after failing to score in two games. During the 999 match against Bahia, Pele said he had “a sudden cold feeling that I was destined not to score again for many years.” Sachin Tendulkar’s struggle to achieve his 100th international century is also well documented. “Everywhere I went, restaurants, room service, everyone was talking about the first hundred. No one was talking about my 99 hundred. “It became very tough for me mentally,” said Reach Mirpur in March 2012 he said after the landmark building.
Kohli’s ODI tally was close to 49 tons, but he didn’t look overly nervous. “Virat is really relaxed and you can see that in his performance,” India coach Rahul Dravid said on Saturday. “No, I really don’t think he’s thinking too much about turning 49 and 50 and certainly not thinking about his birthday, being a year older. I think he’s really focused on winning games and hitting some great boards for us. ball. “I thought he did a really good job at that. “
Bangladesh’s Mehidi Hasan Miraz said after their loss to Pakistan here on Tuesday that cricket is a team sport but batting and bowling are individual matters. Hence the importance of personal milestones. Consider 29 Test centuries, Gary Sobers’ 365 not out in 1958, Brian Lara’s 375 not out 36 years later and 400 in 2004 Not out, Lara’s unbeaten 501 against Durham or Kapil Dev’s 434 Test wickets. Not all of these numbers hold true, but they have become milestones that generations have been eager to beat.
Not reaching 24 points didn’t diminish Williams’ aura. “My biggest hope is that Serena can equal or even surpass Margaret Court at 24,” two-time Grand Slam winner Tracy Austin told Insider in 2022 . “But I think even without those numbers, Serena would be considered the best ever. I feel like the media talks about 24 a lot. Who cares?”
Kohli is the second man in the history of cricket after Tendulkar to reach 75 international hundreds, and he does not need more statistics to verify his brilliant career.
Bailey, Tendulkar and Williams spoke on the media hype around the milestone. Guilty as charged. When Pele scored his 1,000th goal from the penalty spot at Maracana, it coincided with his second trip to the moon. The front pages of Brazilian newspapers the next day gave equal weight to both, he said.
So, no pressure on Virat, but Eden won’t mind finishing 49th on Sunday.