Adelaide Oval 'will have Virat Kohli stand': Dhoni's old video goes viral

Virat Kohli slammed 64 runs of 44 balls in the match against Bangladesh on Wednesday - his third fifty in India's four matches at the T20 World Cup.

It reinforced what Kohli himself and rest of the cricketing world already knew. That the grounds in Australia, considered a nightmare for a lot of other batsmen because of the pace and bounce, are the ace Indian batter's favourite hunting grounds.

Of these, the Adelaide Oval is his most favourite. Kohli has the second highest runs at the venue by a non-Australian player, behind West Indies great Brian Lara.


As soon as the match was over an old video clip of MS Dhoni, in which the former India captain said the Adelaide Oval should have a stand named after him, was shared by users on Twitter.

“I think Adelaide, they are making a stand of him. The amount of runs he is scoring, I think in most of the Australian grounds, by the time he ends his career, quite a few Australian grounds will have his stands," Dhoni had said then.

Virat Kohli scored his maiden Test century at this venue. He scored 116 against Australia during a series back in January 2012 and ended the series as India's leading run-scorer with a total of 300 runs.

In 2014, Virat scored centuries in both innings (115 and 141) against Australia in the first Test back in December 2014 against an attach which featured bowlers like Mitchell Johnson and Nathan Lyon.

At this venue, Virat Kohli has a World Cup hundred against arch-rivals Pakistan, that he scored back in 2015 in a winning cause.

In his first T20I at this venue back in January 2016, Virat Kohli scored a match-winning 90* against Australia, which also earned him the 'Man of the Match' title.

"I love playing at this ground. This makes me feel at home. When I come to Adelaide, I am meant to enjoy myself and keep batting," said Kohli at the post-match presentation.