Virat Kohli Century: Check out the centuries Virat Kohli has scored in International cricket over the years
Published on: Jan 15, 2023 10:17 pm IST|Updated on: Jan 15, 2023 10:19 pm IST
Virat Kohli Century: Virat Kohli and scoring centuries is a match made in heaven. It’s been 15 years since Virat Kohli has been playing international cricket and scoring heavily for Team India. Yes, he had a torrid time during the 2020 and 2021 phase where he was unable to score centuries across formats, and the shackles were broken during the 2022 Aisa Cup in the match against Afghanistan where he scored a brisk ton in T20Is.
Virat Kohli Century
Virat Kohli is on a different level when it comes to scoring hundreds. Talking about his century count in the last decade and a half, Kohli’s first ever ton came in his debut year i.e., in 2008 against England in an ODI at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata where he scored 107. It was just the starting of his startling record as he went on to score as many as 74 international centuries till now. Take a look at his career numbers,
FORMAT | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
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Test | 104 | 177 | 11 | 8119 | 254* | 48.90 | 14628 | 55.50 | 27 | 28 | 913 | 24 | 104 | 0 |
ODI | 268 | 259 | 40 | 12754 | 183 | 58.23 | 13614 | 93.68 | 46 | 64 | 1198 | 136 | 139 | 0 |
T20I | 115 | 107 | 31 | 4008 | 122* | 52.73 | 2905 | 137.96 | 1 | 37 | 356 | 117 | 50 | 0 |
Virat Kohli has now 74 centuries against his name in January 2023. He is surely chasing the 100 centuries mark in international cricket. With age by his side, the remaining 26 centuries aren’t looking far away. Take a look at the last centuries he scored in each format till 15th January 2023.
Format | Last Century Date | Score | Opponent | Location |
Test | 22nd November 2019 | 139 | Bangladesh | Kolkata |
ODI | 10th January 2023 | 113 | Sri Lanka | Guwahati |
T20I | 8th September 2022 | 122* | Afghanistan | Dubai |
Indian Premier League | 19th April 2019 | 100 | Team Kolkata | Kolkata |
Virat Kohli last century
‘King’ Kohli’s last ton came against Sri Lanka in an ODI against Sri Lanka at the Greenfield Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on 15th January 2023. Kohli hit a scintillating unbeaten 166 from 110 deliveries which included 13 fours and 8 sixes. With nothing left to prove for one of the greatest batters in the world, we can expect Kohli to end up with most international centuries in the world.