Virat Kohli dominated on the very first day of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26. While playing for Delhi, he played a century inning of 131 runs in the match against Andhra. Thanks to this inning, he made an important contribution in helping Delhi win by 4 wickets. After this century, Virat Kohli has reached the threshold of breaking a great record of Sachin Tendulkar. If Virat scores 3 more centuries, he will create a world record.

Virat Kohli will make a world record

Virat Kohli played an inning of 131 runs in 101 balls in the match against Andhra on 24 December. This was the 58th century of his List-A career. Actually, Virat is at second place in terms of scoring most centuries in the history of List-A cricket. Only Sachin Tendulkar is ahead of him, who scored a total of 60 centuries in his List-A career. Now if Virat scores three more centuries, he will become the batsman who has scored the most centuries in the history of List-A cricket.

Most centuries in List-A cricket

• Sachin Tendulkar – 60 centuries
• Virat Kohli – 58 centuries
• Graham Gooch – 44 centuries
• Graeme Ashley Hick – 40 centuries
• Kumar Sangakkara – 39 centuries

How can Virat make a record?

According to BCCI orders, all senior players will have to play at least 2 matches in domestic List-A tournaments. Now Virat will play the next match in Vijay Hazare Trophy on 26th December, in which Delhi and Gujarat will come face to face. Even if Virat scores a century in this match, he will still have 59 centuries in his List-A career.

But Virat leaves Tendulkar behind by scoring 2 more centuries in the ODI series against New Zealand to be held in January 2026. Actually, ODI matches also come under List-A cricket, hence in the New Zealand ODI series, Virat can make the world record of scoring most centuries in List-A cricket.

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There has been no such player in cricket history who has played more matches than Sachin Tendulkar till now. No such batsman has come, who has scored more centuries than Tendulkar in international cricket. Career began in 1989 ended in 2013. Here we are going to talk about the number of centuries in ODI cricket. Sachin scored a total of 49 centuries in his ODI career, but if he was not unfortunate, today the number of his ODI centuries would have been more than 60.

66 ODI centuries in the name of Sachin

By the way, Virat Kohli has surpassed Sachin Tendulkar in terms of most ODI century. Sachin scored 49 centuries, but Virat has 51 centuries. In fact, the master blaster was dismissed at 99 in a total of 17 times in his 463 matches ODI career. Sachin was the first batsman in the world to have been dismissed for more than 10 times in ODI cricket.

On these 17 occasions, if the misfortune was not with Sachin Tendulkar, today Sachin’s number of ODI centuries would have been 66. It is also an interesting fact that Sachin was never out on a score of 99 in Test cricket. If Sachin had converted these occasions into a century, then the number of his international century would have increased to 116.

Sachin reached across fifty 264 times

Sachin Tendulkar scored a total of 34,357 runs in his 664 matches international cricket career. He is the only cricketer to score more than 30 thousand runs in cricket. 12 years have passed since Sachin retired, but so far no one has broken the record of scoring more than 50 runs in international cricket. Sachin had crossed fifty, a total of 264 times in his international career. Virat Kohli is second in this list, who has so far scored more than 50 scores in 225 innings in his career.

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