{"id":3614,"date":"2022-03-12T15:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T09:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=202371"},"modified":"2022-03-12T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T09:45:52","slug":"irfan-pathan-expects-a-century-from-virat-kohli-as-he-tweets-a-two-word-message-ahead-of-the-2nd-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/irfan-pathan-expects-a-century-from-virat-kohli-as-he-tweets-a-two-word-message-ahead-of-the-2nd-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Irfan Pathan expects a century from Virat Kohli as he tweets a two-word message ahead of the 2nd Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli is without a single century since November 2019 and now it is been too long that the Indian fans have seen his helmet out with joy. Every Indian fan expected a century from him in the first Test against Sri Lanka which was played in Mohali. That was Virat Kohli\u2019s 100th Test match and he as well his fans was disappointed again as he couldn\u2019t even reach his 50-run mark in the first innings. He fell short of 5 runs and as India won by an innings and 222 runs, Virat didn\u2019t get a chance to bat in the second innings.<\/p>\n<p>But, before the second and final Test match in Bengaluru, former Indian pace bowler Irfan Pathan tweeted a 2-word message on his official Twitter account, \u201c100 loading\u2026\u201d which was for Virat Kohli as he expects a century from him in this match which will be his 71st.\u00a0 Not only Irfan Pathan but there are a lot of fans and ex-cricketers who want to see the former Indian cricket captain\u2019s (Virat Kohli) 71st century.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">100 loading\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IrfanPathan\/status\/1502531215475167232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Talking about this second Test game which has already been started, India is 2-down and Virat has already walked into the pitch. India has lost two early wickets in the form of Mayank Agarwal and his opening partner Rohit Sharma. It will be interesting to see whether Kohli can bring up his century as now he has a lot of time to do that as he is in the field in the first session of the first day itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is playing against Sri Lanka in the final Test match of the two-match Test series in Bengaluru. Former Indian bowler Irfan Pathan tweets a message for Virat Kohli before the game started as he excepts his 71st hundred in this match. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":26679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1849,1215,301,712],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-former-indian-cricket-captain","tag-hanuma-vihari","tag-irfan-pathan","tag-mayank-agarwal"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}