How Australia helped Kohli break World Cup record

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Indian superstar Virat Kohli has attributed his unthinkable T20 World Cup signifier to being successful his "happy place" aft helping his broadside borderline person to a semi-final spot.

Kohli was named the Player of the Match for an unbeaten 64 disconnected 44 deliveries that allowed India to station an imposing 6-184 against Bangladesh successful a captious Group 2 clash.

In response, Bangladesh flew retired of the gates courtesy of opener Litton Das who smacked a 27-ball 60 earlier losing its mode pursuing a rainfall delay, eventually falling 5 runs abbreviated of the revised people of 151 successful 16 overs.

Kohli's unbeaten 64 against Bangladesh raised his mean astatine this year's tourney to an astounding 220, with the erstwhile skipper dismissed conscionable erstwhile successful 4 innings truthful far.

He became the starring runscorer successful T20 World Cup past during the innings, passing the erstwhile grounds of 1016 runs acceptable by erstwhile Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jaywardena. The people Kohli yet sets is apt to beryllium nigh connected intolerable to way down for tomorrow's superstars.

His affluent vein of signifier comes aft critics had questioned his spot successful India's T20 broadside pursuing a thin spot that spanned implicit a fig of years, and Kohli said learning the World Cup was successful Australia helped him retired of his rut.

"I'm conscionable successful a blessed space, I don't privation to comparison anything. What's successful the past is successful the past," helium said.

Stream each Australian men's T20 World Cup lucifer positive selected different matches, including the finals, unrecorded and escaped connected 9Now

"As soon arsenic I knew the World Cup was successful Australia, I was grinning from receptor to ear. I knew bully cricketing shots would beryllium the key. I knew the benignant of acquisition and crippled consciousness of having played successful Australia volition travel successful useful for the team.

"I perfectly emotion playing successful this crushed (the Adelaide Oval). Right from the nets astatine the back, arsenic soon arsenic I enter, it makes maine consciousness astatine home. That sound astatine MCG was meant to be, but erstwhile I travel here, it's similar I'm meant to travel to Adelaide and bask my batting."

Despite doubts surrounding his teammate's form, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma suggested helium ever maintained assurance successful the superstar batter.

"In my mind, Kohli was ever there," helium said.

"It was conscionable a substance of fewer innings present and there, and helium hasn't looked backmost since the Asia Cup. The feline has truthful overmuch experience."

Kohli's innings helped India emergence to the apical of Group 2 with six points, 1 constituent up of the second-placed South Africa, which arsenic a crippled successful hand.

India volition look to cement its semi-final spot erstwhile it faces Zimbabwe astatine the MCG successful its last radical signifier lucifer connected Sunday evening.

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