This is the fourth consecutive success of the team during the tournament. Sri Lanka batted first and scored 164 runs for seven wickets with Chandana Despera the top scorer with 46 runs.

Chasing the target, Pakistani batsman Badar Munir and Amir Ashfaq scored 49 and 36 respectively and played a pivotal part in Pakistan’s triumph.

After this success, Pakistan's blind team has made its place in the semi-finals. Tomorrow green shirts will face Nepal in the event.

64-year-old Viv Richards has been retained by Quetta Gladiators for the second season after a superb show by the team in the inaugural season of PSL, where it ended as runner-up.

In a special video message - shared with Geo.tv by the franchise – Viv Richards has expressed confidence that Gladiators will win the PSL title this time.

“We lost the title last year, but we didn’t lose hope. We are coming back this year, to win the hearts again, and the title too,” Sir Viv Richards said in the video.

“Look out for the gladiators, we are coming,” said the veteran of 121 Tests and 187 ODIs, chanting “Shaan-e-Pakistan” towards the end of the video.

Former England Captain, Kevin Pietersen is also confident of a good show by Quetta Gladiators in the second season of Pakistan Super League, warning opponents that the team will strike back.

“Gladiators are coming back, be ready because we will strike back,” said KP in the video message.

The second edition of Pakistan Super League will commence from February 9th with Quetta opening its campaign with a match against Lahore Qalandars on Friday, February 10th.

Batting second allows a batsman to set his tempo according to demand, yet it is considered a true litmus test of stroke-making excellence due to the constant scoreboard pressure.

This was never more evident than when the opposition racked up 350 runs and reduced India to 63-4 like England did in Pune on Sunday, threatening to spoil Kohli’s first match in charge since taking over the limited-overs captaincy.

The 28-year-old replied with a sublime 122, forging a 200-run partnership with fellow centurion Kedar Jadhav, to help India chase down the steep target with 11 balls to spare.

Kohli’s ton equalled Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 17 second innings centuries, a fact made even more remarkable considering he took 136 innings fewer than the retired great, who was quick to laud the centurions on Twitter.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan was far more succinct in his assessment of the India captain, who is ranked among the top two in all three formats of the game.

"VIRAT KOHLI IS FROM ANOTHER PLANET #Fact," Vaughan tweeted, following it with another entry in which he rated the right-hander as the top batsman in each format.

After winning the toss at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Kohli was probably unsure what would constitute a good total at the compact venue hosting only its second one-day international.

Rather unsurprisingly he opted to field and despite cutting a frustrated figure as England bludgeoned India late in their innings, Kohli was calmness personified when his 27th one-day ton helped the hosts take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

This was the third time India has chased down a 350-plus target and on each occasion Kohli has struck a century.

Since his 2008 debut, India have overwhelmed targets of 300 or more on eight occasions and Kohli failed to get a century in just two of those wins.

This was also the 15th time that a Kohli ton culminated in a successful chase, more than any other batsman has managed in this format.

India’s batting mainstay averages a mind-boggling 91 in successful one-day chases but his away record is slightly less impressive.

Of his 17th second innings centuries, eight came in away matches and only four outside Asia, including one in Harare.

Having built an almost impregnable game and fuelled by an insatiable hunger for runs, Kohli is unlikely to settle for just South Asian dominance and will look to export his second innings excellence to grounds all over the world.

“Pakistan have now lost 12 Test matches on the trot in Australia, and somebody’s got to give them a kick up the bum. Cricket Australia have got to start saying ‘listen if things don’t improve we will stop with the invites’,” Chappell was quoted as saying by ESPN.

“You can’t continue to [play poor] cricket. You can’t bowl poorly, have conservative field placings and field sloppily and expect to play decent cricket in Australia,” he added.

The flamboyant all-rounder also praised Mohammad Hafeez’s captaincy —who captained the side in the absence of Azhar Ali— and also applauded performances of Junaid Khan and Shoaib Malik.