India has defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets in the first ODI match. In this match played in Vadodara, the New Zealand team had scored 300 runs while playing first. In reply, the Indian team faltered and won in 49 overs with 4 wickets remaining. Virat Kohli played an inning of 93 runs for India, while Shubman Gill also played a half-century. This is India’s first victory in the year 2026.

Team India, which came to chase the target of 301 runs, did not have a very good start. When Team India’s score was 39 runs, Rohit Sharma was out after scoring 26 runs. Shubman Gill scored a half-century in a steady and slow manner and contributed 56 runs.

New Zealand tried hard

At one time the Indian team had scored 234 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. At this time the Indian team had to score 67 runs in 66 balls and with Virat Kohli in charge, Team India’s victory seemed easy. Team India had scored 234 runs, then Virat Kohli was out after scoring 93 runs. KL Rahul was not able to connect the ball in the beginning, due to which the required run rate was increasing, on the other hand wickets were also continuously falling.

Harshit Rana played an innings of 29 runs in 23 balls, not only removed the pressure from Rahul but also kept the Indian team in the race to register victory. But in the end, KL Rahul ensured the victory of the Indian team by hitting 2 fours and a six.

Rohit did not work, Captain Gill’s half century

Rohit Sharma is also in good form, but the beginning of the year 2026 was not memorable for him. He was out against New Zealand after scoring 26 runs in 29 balls. But captain Shubman Gill, who was returning after missing the ODI series against South Africa, definitely scored a half-century. Gill played a steady inning of 56 runs in 71 balls. In this innings he hit 3 fours and 2 sixes.

Virat missed a century, but created history

Maintaining his amazing form, Virat Kohli has played an inning of 93 runs. He scored 93 runs in 91 balls, in which he hit 8 fours and one six. This was the 77th half-century inning of his ODI career. Virat has scored a total of 469 runs in his last 5 ODI innings, in which he has scored 2 centuries and 3 half-centuries.

Kohli made many records in his name by playing an inning of 93 runs in the match. He has become the fastest batsman to complete 28,000 runs in international cricket. He achieved this feat in his 624th innings, before him Sachin Tendulkar had completed 28 thousand runs in 644 innings. Apart from this, he has left Kumar Sangakkara at second place in terms of scoring most runs in international cricket.

MrBeast Wants To Collaborated with Virat Kohli: YouTuber known worldwide as MrBeast, whose real name is James Stephen Donaldson, has invited Indian star batsman Virat Kohli for a video collaboration. MrBeast is known for his viral challenge videos. Big sports stars of the world are also seen in this challenge. MrBeast has more than 458 million subscribers on YouTube. He has previously done video collaborations with legendary players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Noah Liles, Neymar Jr. and Carlos Alcaraz. While talking to NDTV, MrBeast said that he wants to come back to India and during this time he has also given a special message for Virat Kohli.

What did MrBeast say about Virat?

MrBeast said, ‘I love you all very much. I want to come to India again soon. Hey Virat Kohli, if you are watching this interview, we want to shoot a video with you. You guys have always been amazing. Most people don’t know that India is one of our largest audience bases, so thank you very much to all of you.

MrBeast has already invited Virat

MrBeast has already invited Virat for video collaboration. In April last year (2025), he had also made a tweet tagging Kohli, which went viral on social media at that time.

Virat is ready for India-New Zealand ODI series

Virat Kohli will once again be seen in action in the ODI series between India and New Zealand starting from January 11, 2026. Virat’s recent form has been excellent and he finished the year 2025 as India’s highest run-scorer, finishing the year with a total of 651 runs. In the 3-match ODI series against South Africa last month, Virat scored two centuries and one half-century and scored 302 runs in three matches. After this, Virat made a comeback for Delhi in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Even in domestic cricket, Kohli looked in great form and played excellent innings of 131 and 77 runs respectively in the two matches.

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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India defeated South Africa 2-1 in the three-match ODI series. Virat Kohli scored 302 runs in three matches, for which he also received the Player of the Series award. In this series, he also broke many records by scoring 2 centuries and one half-century. See here the list of 10 records that Virat Kohli has made in the ODI series against South Africa.

Virat Kohli made 10 records:

Most centuries in one format: Virat Kohli has also become the cricketer who has scored the most centuries in one format. Sachin Tendulkar had scored 51 centuries in Tests, but Virat now has 53 centuries in his name in ODI, which is the most in any one format.

Reached the 25th century mark on home grounds: Virat Kohli has become the first cricketer in the world to touch the figure of 25 ODI centuries on home grounds. He has now scored 26 centuries while playing on Indian grounds.

Most Player of the Series awards: Virat Kohli has become the cricketer to win the Player of the Series award the most number of times in men’s international cricket. He broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar (19). Virat has now become Player of the Series 20 times.

Most ODI centuries against South Africa: Virat Kohli has scored 7 centuries against South Africa, which is the highest in the world.

Virat and Rohit played most number of matches together: Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have now become the Indian pair to play the most number of matches together in international cricket. They have now played 394 international matches together. He broke the record of 391 matches of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.

2 consecutive ODI centuries for the 11th time: Virat Kohli has done this for the 11th time in his ODI career, when he has scored a century in two consecutive innings. No one has been able to do this before him. After him in this list comes the name of AB de Villiers, who had done this 6 times.

50+ scores in 4 or more consecutive innings: Virat Kohli has done this 9 times in his ODI career, when he has scored 50 or more in 4 or more consecutive innings. 3 matches against South Africa and before that he had scored 74 runs in the last ODI against Australia.

Centuries at 34 different places: Virat Kohli has now scored centuries at 34 different places in his ODI career. In this matter he has equaled Sachin Tendulkar.

Record of century partnership of Rohit-Kohli: Virat Kohli along with Rohit Sharma made a century partnership for the 20th time in the history of ODI cricket. He equaled Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan. Now only Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly are ahead of him, who had made century partnerships 26 times.

Highest 50+ score against South Africa: Virat Kohli has made the record of scoring the most half-centuries against South Africa in all three formats combined. Virat has scored 50+ against South Africa 27 times.

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.

India vs South Africa 3rd and deciding ODI match will be played tomorrow, 6th December in Visakhapatnam. Currently the series is tied 1-1 and the team that wins the third match will be called the winner of the series. Virat Kohli is the highest run scorer so far in this series. He scored 237 runs at an average of 118.50, scoring centuries in both the matches. Till now he has broken many records in the series. See here 3 such records, which Virat Kohli can make in his third ODI.

Hat-trick of ODI centuries

So far in the history of ODI cricket, a total of 12 cricketers have scored centuries in three consecutive innings, i.e. a hat-trick of ODI centuries. Babar Azam is the only batsman in the world who has achieved this feat twice. For India, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have so far completed hat-trick of ODI centuries once each. If Virat scores a century in the third ODI against South Africa, he will become the first Indian batsman to score a hat-trick of centuries twice in ODI.

4 consecutive centuries against South Africa

Virat Kohli has already scored a hat-trick of centuries in ODI matches against South Africa. In both the matches of the current series, he has played innings of 135 and 102 runs respectively. Earlier, he had also played a century against South Africa in the 2023 ODI World Cup. Now, if he scores a century in the third ODI match too, then Virat will become the first cricketer to score centuries in 4 consecutive innings against South Africa in ODI cricket.

Most runs in international cricket

Virat Kohli has so far scored 27910 runs in 555 international matches. He is at third place in terms of scoring most runs. He has to score 107 more runs to leave second place Kumar Sangakkara. Sangakkara has 28016 runs in his name. If Virat scores 107 more runs in the third ODI, he will become the second highest run scorer in international cricket.

In the second ODI match played in Raipur, South Africa defeated the Indian team by 4 wickets. South Africa has become the team with the biggest run chase in ODI cricket history against India. In this match, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Aiden Markram scored centuries. In this match, players set new individual records ranging from chasing records. See here the list of those 7 big records, which were made in the India vs South Africa second ODI match.

7 records made in India-South Africa second ODI

Biggest run chase against India- South Africa has made the record of the biggest run chase against India in ODI cricket. In 2019, Australia also chased the target of 359 runs against India. Now South Africa has also chased the record of 359 runs against India in Raipur.

Century in 11 consecutive ODI innings- Virat Kohli scored 102 runs in the second ODI match. Earlier, in the first ODI played in Ranchi, he had also played a century inning of 135 runs. This is the 11th time in Virat’s ODI career, when he has scored a century in 2 or more consecutive innings.

Most centuries in ODI at number-3- Batting at number 3 in ODI cricket, Virat Kohli has made the record of most centuries in his name. In Raipur, he scored his 46th century while batting at number three. Before him, Sachin Tendulkar had scored 45 centuries in ODIs while batting at number 3.

ODI centuries at 34 different places- Raipur is the 34th place where Virat Kohli has scored an ODI century. He has equaled Sachin Tendulkar in scoring ODI centuries at 34 different places.

Second fastest century against South Africa- Rituraj Gaikwad has scored the second fastest century by an Indian batsman against South Africa in ODI. He completed the first century of his ODI career in 77 balls. The record for the fastest century for India against Africa in ODI is in the name of Yusuf Pathan (68 balls).

The biggest partnership for India against South Africa- In the second ODI match, there was a partnership of 195 runs between Virat Kohli and Ruturaj Gaikwad. This is the biggest partnership of any Indian pair against South Africa in ODI. Kohli-Gaikwad broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar and Dinesh Karthik’s partnership of 194 runs.

Most centuries in an India-South Africa ODI match- In the second ODI match played in Raipur, Virat Kohli, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Aiden Markram scored centuries. Before this, there have been two such occasions in 2001 and 2015, when 3 batsmen had scored centuries in the India-South Africa ODI match. In 2001, Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and Gary Kirsten had scored centuries. In 2015, Quinton de Kock, AB de Villiers and Faf du Plessis scored centuries in the same match.

Virat Kohli is breaking records by scoring century after century. In the ODI series against South Africa, he has scored centuries in both the matches so far. 135 runs in Ranchi and now he has scored a century of 102 runs in Raipur. ‘King Kohli’ has set some new records by scoring the 53rd century of his ODI career. He has also made a world record. Thanks to Virat Kohli’s 102 runs and Rituraj Gaikwad’s century innings of 105 runs, Team India had scored 358 runs in the second ODI.

Most centuries at number 3 in ODI

Virat Kohli has batted at number 3 for most of his ODI career. He has now scored 46 centuries while batting at number 3 in ODI cricket, which is a world record. Before him, the record of scoring most centuries while batting at number three was in the name of India’s Sachin Tendulkar. Tendulkar had scored 45 ODI centuries while batting at number-3.

Highest 50+ score against South Africa

Virat Kohli has played 33 ODI matches against South Africa, in which he has scored 1741 runs in 31 innings. He has become the Indian batsman to score the highest 50+ score against South Africa in ODI. In Raipur, Virat did this for the 15th time in 31 innings when he scored 50 or more runs against South Africa. No Indian batsman before him could do this.

ODI century on 34 different grounds

Raipur is the 34th place where Virat Kohli has scored an ODI century. Virat Kohli has now equaled Sachin Tendulkar in terms of scoring most centuries on different grounds. Sachin Tendulkar also scored centuries at 34 different places in his ODI career.

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Virat Kohli has scored the 52nd century of his ODI career. He already holds the record for scoring most centuries in ODI cricket history. This is his 83rd century innings in international cricket. Virat completed his century in 102 balls in the first ODI against South Africa. Kohli hit 7 fours and 5 sixes to complete his century.

In the same match, Rohit Sharma also scored the 60th half-century of his ODI career. Rohit could not reach the century, but Virat showed strong performance and crossed the 100-run mark for the 52nd time in his ODI career.

Virat Kohli has now become the batsman who has scored the most centuries against South Africa in the history of ODI cricket. This was his sixth ODI century against South Africa. Before him, both Sachin Tendulkar and David Warner had scored five centuries each in ODI against South Africa. This is Virat Kohli’s third century in five ODI innings on Ranchi ground. Before this, Virat Kohli had scored three centuries each in Visakhapatnam and Pune.

Before this, Virat Kohli’s last century came against Pakistan in the Champions Trophy 2025, where he played an unbeaten inning of 100 runs. The pressure of retirement was continuously increasing on Kohli, while there are question marks over his playing in the 2027 World Cup. Meanwhile, this century innings is telling something else.

Earlier, Virat had also played an innings of 74 runs in the last ODI match against Australia. Kohli has already retired from T20 and Test, and now plays only ODI. This century innings has shown his hard work and commitment to play the 2027 World Cup.

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The record of scoring the most centuries in Test cricket as captain is in the name of South African veteran Graeme Smith. Only one Indian player is present in the Top-7 list. He is none other than India’s most successful Test captain Virat Kohli. However, Australian players dominate this list. 5 out of seven players in the list are from Australia.

7 batsmen who scored the most centuries in Tests as captain

• Graeme Smith

South African veteran batsmen are in the first place in this list. Smith has captained 109 matches for South Africa. During this, Smith has scored 25 centuries.

• Virat Kohli

Indian veteran batsman Virat Kohli is second in this list. Kohli has captained 68 matches for India. Kohli has scored 20 centuries during this period.

• Ricky Ponting

The name of Australian veteran captain Ricky Ponting is also included in this list. Ponting has captained Australia in 77 matches. During this time 19 centuries have come out of his bat.

• Steve Smith

Australian veteran batsman Steve Smith is fourth in this list. Smith has captained 40 matches for Australia. Smith has scored 17 centuries during this period.

The name of Australian great batsman Steve Waugh is also included in this list. Steve has captained 57 matches. During this, he has scored 15 centuries.

• Allen border

Australian veteran batsman Alan Border is sixth in this list. The border has captained Australian in 93 matches. The border has scored 15 centuries in 93 matches.

• Don Bradman

The name of Australia’s great batsman Don Bradman is also included in this list. Bradman has captained the Australian team in 24 matches. During this, Bradman has scored 14 centuries.

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