Kuldeep reels West Indies in, Gill and Kohli tons knock them out

ODI cricket, especially the bilateral variety, is fighting for survival. One of the two competing sides has called off the domestic List A competition this year amid financial crisis. You wouldn't have been able to guess that as Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill treated a festive full house in Trivandrum to centuries at the start of India's home international season. A major part of the win, though, was set up by Kuldeep Yadav's 4 for 40 on ODI comeback to restrict West Indies to 295 despite a 135-run opening stand between Justin Greaves and John Campbell.

On another day, Kuldeep would have been the main event, but there are few sights India loves more than their batters chasing down ODI targets around dinner time in the festival season. Especially when one of them is Kohli, who went past 15000 runs during the innings. While his 55th ODI hundred only extended his lead at the top, he did go level with Sachin Tendulkar on 60 List A hundreds. At 86 in all international cricket, is 100 hundreds too fantastical to think of?

And what of Gill, India's captain who arguably gave up two hundreds in England with cramp or neck pain? He reached his 10th ODI hundred in just his 67th innings, the third-fastest to the mark. His overall count reached 22.