{"id":227652,"date":"2025-10-27T06:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227652\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T06:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:01:07","slug":"australian-commentator-cries-watching-virat-kohli-and-rohit-sharma-for-the-last-time-watch-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227652\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian commentator cries watching Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma for the last time &#8211; WATCH | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/virat-rohit-2710-getty.jpg\" alt=\"Australian commentator cries watching Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma for the last time - WATCH\" title=\"Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma\u2019s arrival at the crease during the third and final ODI at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday was met with a mix of awe, nostalgia, and emotion. (AFP Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma\u2019s arrival at the crease during the third and final ODI at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday was met with a mix of awe, nostalgia, and emotion. (AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virat Kohli<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rohit-sharma\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rohit Sharma<\/a>\u2019s arrival at the crease during the third and final ODI at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday was met with a mix of awe, nostalgia, and emotion. It wasn\u2019t just Indian fans who were captivated \u2014 even the Australian crowd and commentators were moved by what could be the legendary duo\u2019s final outing together on Australian soil.\u201cStandby, because while the skipper is departing, the king is about to arrive for the very last time on Australian shores in Indian colours. Ladies and gentlemen\u2026 here he is, Virat Kohli,\u201d said Adam White on SEN Cricket.<\/p>\n<p>India vs Australia: Virat Kohli &amp; Rohit Sharma rewrite history at SCG<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAs you&#8217;d expect, as we always see, he marches out with purpose. Arguably the best one-day record in the history of the game.\u201dTrent Copeland added, \u201cYou got to pinch yourself occasionally, don&#8217;t you Whitey? That we&#8217;re here for this moment. This guy has been at the centre of seismic shifts in cricket. Unquestionably the best one-day record.\u201dRohit Sharma (121 not out) continued his fine form from Adelaide, producing an even more flawless knock to register his 33rd ODI hundred. The former India skipper now sits third on the list of most centuries in the format, behind Kohli (51) and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sachin-tendulkar\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sachin Tendulkar<\/a> (49).Kohli, after back-to-back ducks in the first two ODIs, bounced back with an unbeaten 74. As the two walked back to the pavilion following India\u2019s nine-wicket victory, the SCG crowd erupted in applause \u2014 and an emotional Australian commentator was even seen in tears. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/45Fan_Prathmesh\/status\/1982465212558295268\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">video<\/a>quickly went viral on social media.Kohli\u2019s knock also helped him surpass Kumar Sangakkara to become the second-highest run-scorer in men\u2019s ODI history, with 14,255 runs in 305 matches \u2014 trailing only Sachin Tendulkar.<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma\u2019s arrival at the crease during the third and final ODI at the Sydney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,34397,34396,18856,15623,101,56,54,55,15624],"class_list":{"0":"post-227652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-ind-vs-aus","10":"tag-india-vs-australia","11":"tag-rohit-sharma","12":"tag-sachin-tendulkar","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-virat-kohli"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}