In a match against Sri Lanka in 2009, while Kohli was playing at the same location, he scored his first century in a One-Day International match. It had taken him 277 innings to score 49 hundreds in the format, but it had taken Tendulkar 438 innings to do the same thing.

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After Kohli’s monumental achievement on Sunday, India’s former head coach Ravi Shastri heaped admiration on the batter and drew comparisons to the time when Sachin Tendulkar, often known as the “master blaster,” was attempting to break Sunil Gavaskar’s record for most consecutive centuries scored in Test matches. Tendulkar tied Gavaskar in 2004 for the record of most tons scored in the longest format with 34, which had previously been held by the India legend.

“I can’t believe it. Record collecting is a national pastime in the United States. Our fixation is on dozens of hundreds. And Sunny was the one who started the trend. When Sachin Tendulkar was trying to get his 34th, I recall that it wasn’t an easy task. He suffered through a great deal of insomnia and would finally break out of it in the 1970s and 1980s.

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And it took some time, just like it has taken Virat Kohli,” Shastri said during the mid-innings show on Star Sports following Kohli’s century, which equaled the record for the most runs scored in an innings.

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“Today’s innings were played with a lot of strategy. When the ball was approaching the bat, he got an early and quick start. And after the ball began to drip, it became far more difficult to select the bowlers. As a result, he took the pressure in stride, bided his time, and then raised the stakes,” Shastri explained further.

This was Kohli’s second century in the ongoing World Cup tournament; his first century came against Bangladesh a month ago (103*). Kohli has had an outstanding performance so far in the World Cup.

He also has five half-centuries in the 2023 tournament. Kohli came very close to equaling Tendulkar’s record twice, once against New Zealand and once against Sri Lanka. He has five half-centuries in the 2023 tournament. However, he was dismissed with only five runs remaining until he reached his century against the New Zealanders. In Mumbai, he hit an impressive 88 runs against the islanders.

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Cricket: India skipper Virat Kohli, who was rested for the T20I series against Bangladesh, is back with the squad for the two-match Test series against the same opposition, starting in Indore on Thursday pic.twitter.com/q5BeY92413

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. Team India’s New Zealand tour has come to an end. On this tour, where Team India faced defeat in the ODI series, the team won 1-0 in the T20 series. 3 matches on this tour were canceled due to rain, due to which the players did not get as much opportunity as they should have got on this tour. But the team is now ready for a new tour. This tour of the team before the World Cup is important.

Return of captain rohit
Shikhar Dhawan, ODI and Hardik Pandya were given the command of T20 team on New Zealand tour, but now regular captain Rohit Sharma is returning for Bangladesh tour. Apart from them, players like Virat Kohli and KL Rahul will also return on this tour. KL Rahul has been made the vice-captain of the team on this tour. His form in the World Cup was not good and he will try to find his rhythm on this tour.

Kohli can leave Ponting behind
King Kohli will return to the team on this tour after the T20 World Cup. The biggest record in front of King Kohli on the tour of Bangladesh is the record of centuries in international cricket. At present, Kohli has 71 international centuries to his name, and he is standing on par with Ricky Ponting in this matter. Virat Kohli will have 3 ODIs and 2 Test matches to break this record on Bangladesh tour. If he manages to do this, then after Sachin, he will reach number two in the list of centuries.

71st Century came against Afghanistan
Earlier, Virat Kohli had to wait for a long time of 3 years for his 71st century. Kohli scored his 71st century against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup. He played an explosive inning of 122 runs off 61 balls in that match.

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