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.