Prolific Indian batter Virat Kohli surpassed the record of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar’s number of centuries after 500 International games on Friday. The Little Master had 75 International centuries after 500 matches whereas Kohli has 76 hundreds after his brilliant hundred against West Indies on the 2nd test in The Queen’s Park Oval.
The 34-year-old become the first cricketer to score a century in his historic 500th game on Friday. The former Indian skipper had played exceptionally well for the Indian team over the years playing some memorable knocks for the Indian team in big games. The Indian batting maestro has shown excellent composure and temperament against West Indies to score his first overseas hundred in the last five years.
The Indian batting maestro also pipped the legendary Brian Lara’s centuries number in the No.4 position on his way to the 29th International century as his 25th century came batting at the No.4 position for India in the longer format of the game, which eventually helped him to get past Brian Lara record of 24 centuries and only behind Sachin Tendulkar, Jacques Kallis, and Mahela Jayawardene in the most centuries in the middle order.
Virat Kohli also went past South African legend Ab de Villiers in the list of most centuries against West Indies in International Cricket, as he scored his 12th hundred against the Men in Maroon in International Cricket and just one hundred behind Sunil Gavaskar’s record of 13 centuries against them.
The RCB batter is a brilliant batter across the three formats of the game, his domination in Cricket has been of a different level altogether and he would walk into any team in world cricket across three formats of the game.
Virat Kohli is just below the Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavaskar, and VVS Laxman in the list of the leading run-getter for India in test cricket. Earlier during the BGT 2023 Kohli broke the legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s record by becoming the fastest batter to complete 25,000 runs in international cricket.
The former Indian skipper is fit and raring to go in for a few more years in International cricket, as he found his usual best starting at the 2022 Asia Cup in Dubai and would be a key player for the Indian team going into the all-important Asia Cup 2023 and ODI World Cup 2023.