Virat Kohli surpasses Sachin Tendulkar for most ODI tons: A look at other batting milestones set by former India skipper

Virat Kohli on Wednesday added another feather to his cap after he surpassed Sachin Tendulkar for most ODI centuries. During the Cricket World Cup semi-final against New Zealand in Mumbai, Kohli notched up his 50th ODI century, surpassing Tendulkar’s tally of 49 tons in the 50-over format.

Kohli got to his century in 106 balls, and went onto score 117 runs before being dismissed by Tim Southee in the 44th over.

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Throughout his international career, Kohli has gone onto become a synonymous name with making and breaking several records across formats.

Let’s look at some records that Kohli has achieved along the way:

—During the World Cup semi-final against New Zealand in Mumbai, Kohli got to his 50th century in ODIs. By doing so, the 35-year-old broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI centuries. Kohli is now the batter with most number of hundreds in ODIs.

—During the ongoing World Cup, Virat Kohli broke another record of Sachin Tendulkar. Kohli has now gone onto score 1000-plus runs in a calendar year for eight years, while Tendulkar had only done so in seven years. So far, Kohli has scored 1000-plus runs in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2023 whereas Tendulkar did so in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007.

—Virat Kohli is the joint-fifth fastest batter to score 5000 runs in Tests, having taken 138 innings to do so. Only Steve Smith, Walter Hammond, Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar have done so in even quicker time.

—Virat Kohli is also the fastest to 13,000 runs in ODIs, having done so in 267 innings. Sachin Tendulkar had taken 321 innings to get to the milestone.

—Virat Kohli took only 96 innings to get to 3500 runs in T20Is, becoming the quickest batter to the milestone. Martin Guptill (118 innings) and Rohit Sharma (126) has done so in more innings than Kohli.

—Virat Kohli ranks fourth in the most number of fifties in international cricket. Kohli has 215 scores of 50-plus, only behind Sachin Tendulkar (264), Ricky Ponting (217) and Kumar Sangakkara (216).

—Virat Kohli also has the third highest batting average in ODIs. Kohli has an average of 58.58 in ODIs, only behind Ryan Ten Doeschate (67) and Shubman Gill (61.02).

—When he scored 115 and 141 against Australia during the Adelaide Test in 2014, Kohli joined an elite list of cricketers having scored a century in each innings of a Test math. This list includes prominent figures like Sunil Gavaskar, Kumar Sangakkara, Misbah Ul Haq and Rahul Dravid.