New Delhi: If there is a player who is considered worthy of improving Sachin Tendulkar’s 100 international records, it is Virat Kohli. When Tendulkar was asked at the awards ceremony at his 100th century awards ceremony, he named it after two names: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.
Within a week, both Rohit and Virat retired from the test format.
Kohli, who exited the Test Arena on Monday, is still 18 million from the incredible milestone, and now only one format can work, possibly two years at most.
At a time when the correlation of over 50 formats is an ongoing debate, hitting 1900 times in ODI is a huge task.
Kohli may participate in the 2027 ODI World Cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
Prior to that, India planned to play only 27 ODIs in three matches against Bangladesh from August to September.
It looks like Tendulkar’s record is “stay here”.
Tendulkar won the 51st century in 200 tests and the 49th century in 463 ODIs.
Kohli hit 30 centuries in 123 Tests, 51 out of 302 ODIs and 1 out of 125 T20 games.
The former captain of the former Rohit scored a total of 49th century scores, including 12 tests, 32 in ODI and 5 in T20s.
In the list of batsmen who have scored the most centuries in international cricket, after Tendulkar and Kohli, are Australia’s Ricky Ponting (71), Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (63), South Africa’s Jacques Kallis (62) and Hashim Amla (55), Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene (54).
Kohli’s contemporaries Joe Root of England (53), Steve Smith of Australia (48) and Kane Williamson of New Zealand (48) are also in careers, with no chance to even get close to Tendulkar’s record.
