Kolkata: The Indian team is in tremendous form in the ODI World Cup 2023 being hosted by India. The team has entered the semi-finals by winning the first 7 matches. The team played its 8th match against South Africa on Sunday (5 November) at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
On this day, Virat Kohli also celebrated his 35th birthday. Kohli gave a wonderful gift to his fans on his birthday. Actually, former captain Virat Kohli’s bat has roared fiercely in this World Cup. Even against South Africa, he maintained his form and created history in style by scoring the 49th century of his career. Kohli completed his century in 119 balls.
Kohli has also equaled the historical record of Sachin (49 centuries) in terms of scoring most centuries in ODIs. Kohli has scored this stormy century in the 277th ODI inning of his career. Whereas Sachin had achieved this feat in his 451st innings.
Sachin played 463 ODIs in his career, in which he scored 18426 runs in 452 innings at an average of 44.83. He scored a total of 49 ODI centuries. Sachin and Kohli have scored maximum 49-49 centuries in One Day International. After them, Rohit Sharma (31) is at second place. That means the top-3 batsmen who have scored the most centuries in One Day International are all Indians.
Player who scored most centuries in ODI
Sachin Tendulkar – 452 innings – 49 centuries
Virat Kohli – 277 innings – 49 centuries
Rohit Sharma – 251 innings – 31 centuries
Ricky Ponting – 365 innings – 30 centuries
Sanath Jayasuriya – 433 innings – 28 centuries
Kohli is in great form this time in the ODI World Cup. So far he has scored 2 centuries and 4 fifties in this tournament. Earlier, he had played an unbeaten inning of 103 runs against Bangladesh. In this World Cup, Kohli had scored 95 runs against New Zealand and missed a century.
He also played innings of 85 runs against Australia and 88 runs against Sri Lanka. That means, in both these matches also, Kohli had come close to a century. If even one of these centuries had been completed, Sachin’s record of most centuries would have been broken.
Now the Indian team has to play its next group match against Netherlands on 12th November. This match will be held in Bengaluru, which is also Kohli’s home ground (in terms of IPL). In such a situation, a century will be expected from Kohli in that match. Then he will also have a chance to break this record of Sachin.
