New DelhiFormer captain of the Indian team and experienced batsman Virat Kohli (Virat Kohli) scored a brilliant century in the ODI match being played against Sri Lanka. With this, Kohli scored the 45th century of his ODI career. With this century, King Kohli has equaled a record of master blaster Sachin Tendulkar and broke a record. This is the 73rd century of Virat Kohli’s international career.
Virat Kohli has so far scored nine centuries in this ODI against Sri Lanka. With this, he has left Sachin Tendulkar behind. By the way, Sachin Tendulkar has scored eight centuries against Sri Lanka.
Virat Kohli slams his 45th ODI ton against Sri Lanka and his 20th ODI ton on home soil equaling the record of Sachin Tendulkar of most centuries in ODIs on home soil
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— ANI (@ANI) January 10, 2023
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Sachin equals on home ground
Apart from this, Virat has equaled another record of Sachin. He has scored his 20th ODI century at home today. Sachin Tendulkar scored 20 of his 49 centuries at home. At the same time, the Master Blaster had played a century on foreign ground 29 times. On the other hand, talk about Kohli, he has so far scored 25 centuries on foreign grounds.
replied to criticism
Virat Kohli was looking for a century after 2019 for a long time. Kohli’s bat was silent from the end of 2019 to the middle of 2022. During this, there was a lot of criticism about his career. But he ended this drought by scoring a century against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup. After that his bat spoke fiercely in the T20 World Cup. After 2019, in 2022, he has scored two consecutive centuries in ODIs. Earlier, he had scored 113 against Bangladesh on 10 December.