‘The GOD of Cricket recognises The KING of Cricket’ – Fans react as Sachin Tendulkar congratulates Virat Kohli with Instagram story for latter’s 76th international century

Former legendary Indian batter, Sachin Tendulkar took to his Instagram story to congratulate the former skipper and modern-day batting great, Virat Kohli. Sachin posted a story in which he praised Kohli for smashing his 76^th international century in his 500^th international appearance for Team India. Apart from this, Virat has also become the first-ever cricketer in the history of the game to score a century in the 500^th international match.

“Another day, another century by Virat Kohli, well played!” read the text Sachin wrote for Kohli in his Instagram story with the latter’s photograph of celebrating his 29^th Test century.

Here’s a look at the Instagram story posted by Sachin Tendulkar

Subsequently, this story posted by Sachin Tendulkar is also interesting for Indian cricket fans also as Kohli has surpassed the former to become the fastest batter to reach to score 76^th international centuries. Earlier, the master blaster had a number of 75 international centuries after 500 appearances for India at the highest level of the game.

Later, the fans took to the micro-blogging site Twitter to come up with a lot of different reactions for both Sachin and Kohli. Some of the fans also felt it is kind of a moment when the God of cricket is recognizing the King of cricket.

Here’s how fans reacted:

The GOD of Cricket recognizes The KING of Cricket 😍
🐐Recognizes🐐 pic.twitter.com/wI73oEkTVo

— Karthik2.0 ✪ (@Mysterio_87_) July 21, 2023

Virat supporting young stars
Sachin supporting young star 🥰

— ⚡Narendra⚡ (@CaptainCheeku) July 21, 2023

Sachin ji andar hi andar ye story lagate samay pic.twitter.com/NA6vco0DAO

— ऋषभ💙 (@Who_is_rishabh) July 21, 2023

https://t.co/SOHSqlgtFt

— Vivek Kumar Mishra (@vivek23mishra) July 21, 2023

God 🙇 no one can match his levels

— Ganguly (@140off113) July 21, 2023

Another day, another century…… 🥺

Man lived those days like us when he used to score century in every series he played. 🥲

— DK (@CricCrazyDK) July 21, 2023

Sachin posting story of superior player than him

— SAVAGE (@Freakvillliers) July 21, 2023

thanks ☺️ sachin sir😍

— ηєнα (@_dreamer__neha) July 21, 2023

Is he jinxing again? 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

— The_cricket (@The_cricket18) July 21, 2023

Kohli to Sachin pic.twitter.com/C7wxQEA2AD

— 💫 (@its_mutukuli) July 21, 2023

Notably, Kohli has also equaled the former great Australian batter, Sir Don Bradman in terms of Test centuries; now, the 34-year-old has also scored 29 Test centuries in his red-ball career for India. Virat achieved this feat in his 111^th Test match whereas Bradman had scored 29 centuries in 52 matches.

Speaking of the ongoing action of the second Test between West India and India at the Port of Spain in Trinidad, the hosts West Indies have made a slight comeback in the match. They have scalped 7 wickets of India till now in the first innings on the score of 408 runs.

At the time of filling this copy, star all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin and lower order batter Jaydev Unadkat were there in the middle; both players were batting on the individual scores of 28 and 5 runs respectively.