'Greatest to play this game' - Fans react as Virat Kohli set to become fourth Indian player to play 500 international matches

Former Indian skipper and batting superstar, Virat Kohli is set to play this 500^th international match; he will achieve this feat while taking the field in the second Test match against West Indies. He will become the fourth Indian cricketer to make 500 international appearances.

The fans are also delighted to know about this achievement by their favourite cricketer; they took to Twitter to praise the modern-day batting great. Some of the fans also hailed Kohli for his extraordinary contributions to Team India since his debut in international cricket.

Here’s how fans reacted:

Greatest to play this game, king Kohli 👑 pic.twitter.com/qwgCRb6fGC

— Emperor.Virat_18🚩 (@Thunder_1817) July 18, 2023

Good luck king

— Harshit Baria (@hbaria03) July 19, 2023

Absolute legend of the game pic.twitter.com/UZrKhwuvvl

— Popat Hamhead (@Rasgullah786) July 19, 2023

GOAT for a reason, I rate Kohli ahead to Sachin just bcz of match winning knock

— Sultan Khan (@MainHoonSultan7) July 19, 2023

Oh, well, isn't that just Kohli being Kohli? A class apart, standing tall at the pinnacle of the Top 100 run-getters.

— SarcasmGPT (@SarcGPT) July 19, 2023

After 499 matches in International Cricket:

•Most runs - Virat Kohli.
•Best Average - Virat Kohli.
•Joint Most Hundreds - Virat Kohli.
•Most 50+ scores - Virat Kohli.
•Most MOM - Virat Kohli.
•Most MOS - Virat Kohli.
•Most runs in ICC Events - Virat Kohli.

THE GOAT. pic.twitter.com/Kd5YBip4su

— king kohli (@AbdeVilliers765) July 19, 2023

King of cricket

— khaby.lame (@iamKHK7077) July 19, 2023

Who is the goat of cricket
1. Virat kohli

End of the list

— Abhinand achuzz (@ravisha47243966) July 19, 2023

GOAT for a reason ❤️

— Gaurav Daga (@Gauravdaga29) July 19, 2023

Talking about the ongoing series against West Indies, Kohli played a steadied knock of 76 runs in the first innings of the first Test at Windsor Park in Dominica. He also surpassed Virender Sehwag in moving one step ahead in the list of leading run scorers for India in Test cricket.

Here’s a look at India’s squad for Second Test against West Indies:

Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ajinkya Rahane (VC), KS Bharat (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan (WK), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, and Navdeep Saini

Here’s a look at West Indies for the second Test against India:

Kraigg Brathwaite (C), Jermaine Blackwood (vc), Alick Athanaze, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Rahkeem Cornwall, Joshua Da Silva (WK), Shannon Gabriel, Jason Holder, Alzarri Joseph, Kirk McKenzie, Kemar Roach, Kevin Sinclair, Jomel Warrican

Coming back to Kohli, he scored his last Test century on the 12^th of March 2023 against Australia in the fourth Test of the series. This century in Test cricket came for the 34-year-old after a long wait of 3 years, 3 months, and 20 days. Before that, he scored a Test century against Bangladesh in 2019 during Kolkata Test.