It has been 838 days since Virat Kohli last scored a hundred. A hundred was, once to him, a habit, an essence of existence like his own breath. And then it stopped, almost unfathomably. The last time the nation waited so anxiously for a hundred was for The Hundredth Hundred.
A wait of 362 days and 33 innings, wading through a spectrum of emotions, from anticipation and agony to fretting and fuming, and finally a shred of relief as he grafted the last of his hundreds, The Hundredth Hundred and dropped an emphatic one-liner: “People forgot that I had scored ’99 hundreds.”
There have been distinct stages for that wait – first a brief period of purely sporting obsession, then a period of desperation, and finally a sense of disburdening though there was no sense of resignation.
Complete News Source : The Indian Express
