Virat Kohli single-handedly took India to the T20 World Cup semifinal, by beating Australia in the virtual knockout game on Sunday. While business of all films running in theatres was affected by the cricket match, the industry hailed Virat Kohli as the best batsman of our times.
Comparisons were made with legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar too.
Check out tweets from the PM, cricketers and Bollywood celebrities:
PM Narendra Modi: What a match! Proud of our team. Great innings Virat Kohli & exemplary leadership MS Dhoni
Amitabh Bachchan: T 2188 – VIIIIRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT !! You are simply genius!!
Sachin Tendulkar: Woooow Virat Kohli …special it was… Great win, fighting all the way!
Aamir Khan: What an innings! Virat SALUTE ! This innings was a combination of a marathon, a chess game, and archery! Bullseye! Love and respect! a.
Irrfan Khan: Like always we finish in style! Congrats Team India … And Virat Kohli unreal innings what a win !!
Anil Kapoor: They came they slayed they conquered! #TeamIndia wins again! Virat Kohli, you’re a rockstar!
Preity Zinta: Yeahhhhhh Virat rocked this game & how I’d like to thank his math teacher for teaching him that 6 & 4 come before 1 ting !
Sushmita Sen: ….oh beautiful people!!!!! This is true #Victory WE NEVER GIVE UP!!! Cause WE ARE INDIA!!! CONGRATULATIONS Team INDIA!!
Kabir Bedi: CONGRATS Team India! Brilliant match, spectacular victory, outstanding performance by Virat Kohli! A landmark win! Balley, balley!
Atul Kasbekar: Virat Kohli. The Messi of World Cricket. Best Batsman On The Planet. I Bow To You Sir
Emraan Hashmi: What a victory!!! Indiaaaa Indiaaaa
Neha Dhupia: Yayyyyyyyy!!! We wonnnnn … #viratkohli ur such a star!!!!
Pooja Hegde: Wooooooohhhhoooo VIRAT KOHLI you rockstar woohoo…thankfully not dubbing 2morrow,voice is gone screaming! Haha
Boman Irani: Played like an Athletic Chess player! Master innings Virat Kohli
Soha Ali Khan: What an incredible innings by Virat Kohli; nerves of steel – well done
Rajyavardhan Rathore: Terrific Victory Team #Ind in a thrilling Match.Congratulations for clinching the Semi Final berth. Best wishes for the next round
Harshvardhan Kapoor: No one close to Virat Kohli right now in world cricket
Madhur Bhandarkar: Congratulations to the #jalwa #TeamIndia for a wonderful win against Australia. Very well played Virat Kohli. Good luck for semis.
Shane Warne: Great knock by Virat Kohli. Reminded me of one of your (Sachin) many special innings buddy !!!!!
Michael Vaughan: No question Virat Kohli is the greatest ever judge of a chase I have ever seen … Cool as you like
Ravi Ashwin: Sandstorm from sachin at Sharjah,and the hailstorm in Mohali from Virat Kohli should be written in the same paragraph.
Yuvraj Singh: Well what can I say ! There are players who r in form and there is Virat Kohli who wins you games again and again ! Hats of you beauty
Rohit Sharma: Brilliant chase from the chase master. Great batting mate
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar: Hard to believe this guy is jst a human being .. Hats of
Glenn Maxwell: Well… That innings was a different level…Not a lot more to say really… Absolutely shattered. Beaten by 1 cricketing genius.
Shane Watson: Virat Kohli, What an absolute pleasure to witness that tonight. INCREDIBLE. Can’t wait to finally be on the same team
I personally want India to lose because I don’t want cricket to have any affect on Fan biz !!!!!!
Virat and Anushka-2 champions in theur respective fields. I know some will say it’s too early to call anushka a champ but just wait for Sultan & ADHM to release and then u will get my point
Class of Tendulkar Passion of Ganguly Hard Work of Dravid All Including makes one Virat kohli for us
Virat Kohli has a white beard and wears glasses now it seems. He is looking like Amitabh Bachchan.
Very good performance by Virat Kohli.
Rohit Sharma , Shikhar DHAWAN learn something from him.
You both always eat up powerplay overs trying to settle yourselves and then get out and team go through immense pressure.
Suresh Raina : please learn to play bouncer. It has been a decade since u are afraid from bounced .
@ Javed .. U want India to loose bcoz your team (Pakistan) couldn’t do much in the tournament. U R jealous
Kohli what an amazing player best of luck for semi ind
Other celebrity tweets abt India this time but Our jobless Abhishek evryday giving reply to evryone :D
@indicine:
Bharat Ratna Sachin sir’s tweet should be on top. Atleast above Emraan Hashmi.
Virat kohli’s inning was really Awesome. It reminds me Sachin Sir’s inning against Pakistan in world cup 2003..
@javeda:
Get lost you paki!!!
reality is that australia didnt have good bowling attack and the plan was weird they were in pressure and was bowling ti his strengths
Virat is good but ABD is god
Seriously Amazing & Superb inning played by Virat Khohli…..I wish & pray that India will win the World Cup too…..
@Javed, shame on you, you want India to lose match so that your Haklu Khan (Srk) movie FAN will not get affected, now I really wish that FAN will become big Flop……you LOOSER….
Lol @Javed why are you creating unnecessary negativity for SRK,SRKIANS and FAN,when you don’t have an organ called brain??
You missed Aamir’s tweet!
Anyways
After Rohit’s wicket I thought we lost this and then the way yuvi was struggling I thought it is over for India …
But then came masterclass from Mr.Virat Kohli.
Congratulations ? VIRAT and thanks for taking (as usual) our country to the semis…. But nowadays our team only relying on VIRAT and ASHWIN on Batting/Bollowing respectively, NEHRA, BUMRAH,PANDYA playing some good cricket….But This should be changed as soon as possible coz now we have Knockout matches to come, We had to play against a mighty T20 side like WI where u find all match winners who gave their contributions with BAT, BWL as well as FIELD and Unfortunate thing is match is on WANKHEDE (Haklus fav. Stadium ?) where there is no hope for Bowlers…. Toss would be Crucial….GAYLE FORCE/VIRAT/RO-HITMAN to watch out for!!!! ?
@javed pathetic coment..even i am big fan of SRK and eagerly waiting for FAN but what is connection betwee fan movie and India winning the world t 20 ..world t20 will end on 3rd april and FAN is realising on 15 .have some sense
this guy making me his fan….I just cant resist myself….take a bow virat……I am die hard sachinist…lost interest in cricket but u again forced me to watch and follow again…..
What the hellllll is this @javed
Get lost from Indicine cause this site is not for those morons who do not know how to reapect peoples…INDI+CINE
Was havin good thinking in mind for u cause u r a srkian…BUT NO…U R NOT SRKIAN….CAUSE SRK AND SRKIANS BOTH RESPECT THE THINGS…PEOPLE’S AND ABOVE ALL THE COUNTRY
GET LOST MINDLESS MORON
EVEN IF 100 MOVIES OF SRK GOT FLOP DUE TO INDIA WINING WORLD CUP THEN ALSO WILL BE HAPPY AS INDIAN…
#PROUDINDIAN #PROUD MUSLIM #TRUE SRKIAN
Virat is simply Genius man….what a class…we are lucky to have in INDIA….
but Harshwardhan Kapoor tweet shows he has zero knowledge of the game….
I think there is nothing to choose between VIRAT & ABD except ABD is not in best of form…It also happenned with Virat some days back…
I wonder after having 2 of greatest batsman of all time RCB still didn’t manage to win the IPL..
GO RCB this time around…
One Master is in form of his life
Another will join sooner or later…
@javed
keep your personal desire with yourself
dnt mix cricket with fan
no movie not even sholay can replace the thrill of cricket
its becoz of people lyk u y ur idol are bashed
i m srkiian so plzz dnt be disgrace to him by commenting anything
First time I m loving srkians comment..hats of to them..for bashing moron like @ javed
And taking right stand when required
It’s because of these people ..srk get bashed…
srk will get ashamed ..when he will see.. fan like. @javed…coz every one is praying for India..including srk ..salman bhai..amir
And here is a guy..who is praying for defeat of India..but
One thing I noticed ..when @javed wished for something every time opposite had occured
He wished for bajrangi bhaijaan to flop ..it becomes blockbuster ..he again wished for prdp to flop..but it become superhit..
He again wished for dilwale to broke PK record ..dilwale becomes semi hit.
He is also wishing from last one year ..that sultan will become flop..but again opposite will going to happen..
So I m thinking in a positive sense ..that javed is praying for defeat of India..coz
Just opposite will going to happen..as I m 100% sure that India will lift the t20 trophy..
newzland will win this worldcup, because of their brilliant team work.
No wonder such comment came from @Javed !!!!!!! And this fool predicts disasters for Salman and Aamir movies, such a disgusting creature !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@javed ,if u r an indian and a muslim u must know that “it is impossible to be a true muslim if a man has no love for his country .”–Maulana Anwar Shah Kashmiri.
To all Javed is srk hater. He makes such a comment purposely so every one hate srk. He is not only one but there are many like him
For me virat is most prolific and better batsman than sachin Gavaskar and Dravid though later three are technically better than him He the most consisten, aggressive and most importent he never plays for personal statistic and always stay with team till victory. He scored 4 test hundreds in Australian tour which no Indian batsman did before. His 13 out 24 centuries in chasing lead India toward victory which is similar to sachin 13 out 50 (many of them were against minow attack like Kenya, Bangladesh Zimbabwe etc) virat’s all centuries came against big team proud of him.
I am first time commenting on Indicine but always read comments here. I am SRKian and i feel that this Javed Comment is a Troll by some SRK Hater and reason for the same is there is no co-relation at all in India Winning or Losing WC and FAN the movie FAN releases on 15 Apr which is 2 weeks after WC gets over. Second thing i have met a SRKian who is against Indian Team winning. Either this guy is fake or he is not a true SRKian. SRK is Kohinoor of India. Even Anupam Kher thrashed many on Twitter when they were ranting against SRK.
Correction : I mean i have NEVER met a SRKian who is against India
@2:03pm:
He is from Pakistan.
@Abhi you idiot he’s not even close to any one of them