Virat Kohli creates a new record and it's not associated with cricket!
2 July 2024 4:58 PM IST
Virat Kohli after T20 World Cup victory. (Photo: X)
Hyderabad: Star India batter Virat Kohli is synonymous with cricket records as he broke many and made some on his own. Highest runs in T20 World Cup, Highest score in a single edition of world cup are his records to name a few. However, Virat Kohli now broke another record which has nothing to do with his cricketing skills.
After winning the T20 World Cup on Saturday, Kohli announced retirement from T20 internationals as the second highest run scorer in the format. But a little while later, he made an Instagram post marking the historic World Cup victory, that broke the record for the most liked Instagram picture by an Indian account.
It was a post made with a combination of 4 pictures including the picture of team India where Rohit Sharma was lifting the World Cup trophy and other 2 are of Virat kohli holding the World Cup and 1 Virat-Rohit's pic.
The post garnered 19,770,235 likes (as last checked) and it is now the highest liked post surpassing Kiara Advani-Siddarth malhotra's wedding announcement post.
Virat's post had also attracted more than 7 lakh comments, which included comments from a wide-range of celebrities including from UFC fighter Conor McGregor and Bollywood actors Vikrant Massay and Madhavan, YouTuber Kili Paul and others.
The 'King' as fans call him captioned the record-breaking post saying, "Couldn’t have dreamt of a better day than this. God is great and I bow my head in gratitude. We finally did it 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳❤️jai hind"
Here's the post:
( Source : Deccan Chronicle )
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