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 is a discussion about Virat Kohli whether he will play in the 2027 ODI World Cup or not. He has already retired from Test and T20, now plays only in ODI format for India. But the form he has shown against South Africa has raised hopes that he can complete 100 centuries in international cricket and also break Sachin Tendulkar’s record. Amidst this discussion, veteran Sunil Gavaskar has also given his opinion, according to him, if this happens then Kohli can reach this figure.

Virat Kohli’s tour of Australia was not good, he got ‘duck out’ in 2 consecutive matches. Although he played an unbeaten half-century in the third ODI, he continued this excellent form in all three matches against South Africa. Kohli played a historic inning of 135 runs in Ranchi ODI.

Virat Kohli became the player to score most centuries in any one format, he broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin has scored 51 centuries in Tests. By scoring a century in the second ODI played in Raipur, Kohli’s number of ODI centuries has increased to 53.

What did Sunil Gavaskar say on Sachin’s record?

Virat Kohli played an unbeaten inning of 65 runs in the third ODI, and if the target had been bigger then surely Kohli’s 54th ODI century would have been seen. If this happens, it would be Kohli’s 85th international century. Veteran Sunil Gavaskar believes that if Kohli gets enough time, he can break Sachin’s big record. He gave his opinion while talking on GeoCinema.

Sunil Gavaskar said ‘Why not?’ If Virat Kohli plays for 3 more years then he needs 16 more centuries from here. The way he is playing, he has scored 2 centuries in the 3-match series. Going forward, if he scores 2 centuries in the 3-match series against New Zealand, he will reach 86. Therefore his chances of reaching 100 are big, very good.

Most international centuries

1. Sachin Tendulkar (India) – 100
2. Virat Kohli (India)- 84*
3. Ricky Ponting (Australia)- 71
4. Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)- 63
5. Jacques Kallis (South Africa)- 62

Sunil Gavaskar also praised Virat Kohli’s inning of 65 runs in the third ODI against South Africa. He said that he started hitting with the very second ball, while did not play any careless shot.

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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Sachin Tendulkar, who was called the God of Cricket, played many great innings in his 24 -year career. Sachin is the highest international century batsman in the world, he has 100 centuries in his name. Sachin, who got rid of the sixes of the bowlers with his bat, remained calm most of the grounds, very rarely when Sachin was seen in anger. Many times he came due to an angry umpire when he was wrongly dismissed. At that time there was no DRS, otherwise he is not out many times. Many big umpires gave wrong decisions against him many times, including Steve Bakner’s name. The West Indies umpire gave Sachin out on several occasions, while he was not out.

Sachin Tendulkar seated his first ‘Ask Me Anaiting’ on the Reddit on Monday, in which he was answering the questions of the fans. During this time, when a fan asked him about Arjun Tendulkar’s engagement, he confirmed that he has got engaged. Meanwhile, a fan also asked him about umpire Steve Bakner, Fan said, “Steve Bakner wants to say anything?”

What did Sachin Tendulkar say about Steve Bakner?

Sachin Tendulkar jokingly responded to this and said, “Whenever I bat, give him boxing gloves, so that he does not be able to up his finger. (So that he does not give them out).

Please tell that West Indies Umpire Steve Bakner wrongly dismissed Sachin Tendulkar more than once. For the first time, wrong out was given in 2003 when Sachin was playing in Brisbane. A ball of Jason Gillespi hit the tree, Sachin did not play the shot. Bankar called out, which surprised everyone including Sachin. After Sachin’s departure, it was also seen in the replay that the ball was much higher than the stump, about 10 inches up.

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Steve Bakner also gave wrong out to Sachin Tendulkar against Pakistan

After 2 years, at the Eden Gardens Ground, Steve became wrong and gave Sachin Tendulkar wrong. Then Sachin played lightly off the ball of Pakistani bowler Abdul Razzaq, but the ball went into the hands of wicket -keeper without hitting the bat. Razzaq also appealed lightly, but Bakner raised his finger and declared him out. Sachin did not debate but returning to the pavilion, his disappointment was clearly visible.

Manchester’s Old Trafford Maidan has been like a nightmare for the Indian team. Team India’s record is very bad here, especially in the Test. The fourth match of the current series is also being played at the Old Trafford ground. The Indian team has played 9 Test matches at this ground, but has never won. Apart from the team, Indian batsmen have also been struggling here, because for the last 35 years, no Indian batsman has been able to score Test Century on the Old Trafford ground.

Not a single win in 89 years

India played their first match in 1936 at the Old Trafford ground, which was left on a draw. About a year before independence, Team India played their second Test here, this time also ended on the match draw. At the same time, after independence, the Indian team has played 7 Test matches here, out of which they have not won a single win. Overall, in the last 89 years, India has played 9 Test matches at the Old Trafford Maidan, out of which 4 were defeated and had left the match five times.

Not a single century in 35 years

So far, only 6 Indian batsmen have been able to score centuries in a Test match on the Old Trafford ground. His names are Abbas Ali Bag, Poly Umrigar, Sunil Gavaskar, Sandeep Patil, Mohammad Azharuddin and Sachin Tendulkar. So far, the last century for India was scored by Sachin Tendulkar in 1990. In the second innings of that match, Tendulkar contributed significantly in getting an unbeaten 119 -unbeaten innings.

After 1990, India has played the same match at this ground, which took place in 2014. Now it will be worth noting whether an Indian batsman is able to end the drought of a century who has been running for 35 years at the Old Trafford ground in the Test match being played in 2025.

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