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Virat Kohli (Hindi pronunciation: [ʋɪˈɾɑːʈ ˈkoːɦli] ⓘ; born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer who plays Test and ODI cricket for the Indian national team. A former captain in all formats of the game, Kohli retired from the T20I format following India's win at the 2024 T20 World Cup .
In 2019, Kohli scored seven centuries which included five ODI-centuries. Moreover, he scored his highest score in Test-cricket against South Africa. In late 2022, Kohli scored a hundred against Bangladesh in the third ODI to overtake Ricky Pointing 's record of 71 centuries scored in international cricket. [20]
Virat Kohli is the leading century maker, with eight centuries to his name. [1]In cricket, a batter reaches a century when he scores 100 runs or more in a single innings.A century is regarded as a landmark score for a batter, and his number of centuries is generally recorded in his career statistics. [2]
Bibliography. List of Cricket World Cup centuries. India's Rohit Sharma has the most centuries (7) in World Cup matches. He also holds the record for most centuries in a single World Cup tournament having scored 5 centuries in the 2019 Cricket World Cup. In cricket, a player is said to have completed a century when he scores 100 or more runs in ...
– Team India's coach Dav Whatmore at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup on Kohli, Kohli was India's leading run scorer in the five-match ODI series of the South African tour in January 2011, with 193 runs including two fifties, both in Indian defeats. During the series, he jumped to number two spot on the ICC Rankings for Men's ODI batters, and was named in India's 15-man squad for the World Cup ...
A qualification of 15 overall centuries is used for entry onto the men's list. To date, 127 cricketers have scored 15 or more international centuries, 83 of whom went on to score 20 or more centuries, 44 have scored 30 or more centuries, and 21 have a total of 40 or more centuries. Across all three formats, 8 players have scored 50 or more ...
India's Sunil Gavaskar and Australians Ricky Ponting and David Warner are the only cricketers who have scored two centuries in a match on three occasions, [4] while 11 players have achieved the feat twice. [b] England's Graham Gooch has the highest aggregate in a match while scoring centuries in both the innings; his combined tally of 456 runs ...
MS Dhoni (left) and Rohit Sharma (right) both hold the record of most titles as captain in Indian Premier League with 5 titles each. Indian batsman Virat Kohli holds the records for the most runs scored (8,004) and the most centuries made (8) in the league. Indian batsman Rohit Sharma and wicket-keeper MS Dhoni are the most successful captains ...