Virat Kohli could not have asked for a better reunion with the South Australian coast that he has long relished throughout his international career. The Adelaide Oval, the picture postcard cricket ground from the Southern Hemisphere, is a place where the modern maestro has wielded his willow with utmost clarity and control over proceedings.

Kohli’s love affair with Adelaide has been well documented throughout his career, with significant landmarks unfurling at crucial junctures at the ground. Incidentally, a chubby 24-year-old Delhi batter’s first Test hundred was etched in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy tour of 2011-12 in Adelaide, a massive lifeline for Kohli, who several experts wanted to be dumped at that point from the Test XI.

Four years later, Kohli would turn up as Test captain in

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