Michael Vaughan's tweet for Virat Kohli gets great reception from fans

Team India skipper Virat Kohli is going through the peak of his career. Kohli is smashing hundreds at will and is piling up runs with utmost ease. His recent efforts have fetched him widespread appreciation. Among the many fans he has made, former English skipper Michael Vaughan seems to be a very excited one. Vaughan has been closely following the game of Kohli.

He has often been seen tweeting for the Indian captain on the social media site Twitter. Recently, during the final ODI of the India’s tour of South Africa, Michael Vaughan shared a very special tweet for the Indian captain. The tweet has managed to fetch the attention of a lot of cricket fans. It has garnered immense popularity on the social media at the moment.

Vaughan, in his tweet for Virat Kohli, had hailed the Indian captain as the ‘greatest ever chaser’. In another tweet, he went on quote Kohli as the ‘greatest ever ODI cricketer’. Well, that certainly is quite a big statement. The tweet fetched over 3000 retweets and almost 14000 people liked the tweet.

Here are the tweets that Michael Vaughan posted for Virat Kohli:

“He is off again … @imVkohli … Grestest ever chaser … #SAvIND,” Vaughan wrote when Kohli had started off his innings in the sixth ODI against South Africa.

“35th …. Greatest Ever ODI player … #Fact … @imVkohli #SAvIND,” Vaughan tweeted after Kohli hit his 35th century.

Coming to the innings that prompted Michael Vaughan to hail Kohli as the GOAT (Greatest of All Time), Kohli smashed an unbeaten ton in the run chase of 204 in the final ODI at Centurion. This was the 35th ODI ton for the Indian captain. With the century, he inched closer to the milestone number of the most ODI centuries in the cricket history.

Kohli is next to only Sachin Tendulkar in the list who has 49 ODI centuries to his name. Interestingly, the ton in the Centurion ODI was the third century of the series for Kohli. He aggregated over 500 runs in the series – the most runs aggregated by an Indian player in a bilateral series.

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