Virat Kohli @ 50 ODI centuries ....The incredible journey

List of Kohli’s hundreds in ODIs:

1. 107 vs SL (2009) - Kolkata

2. 102* vs BAN (‘10) - Dhaka

3. 118 vs AUS (‘10) - Visakhapatnam

4. 105 vs NZ (‘10) - Guwahati

5. 100* vs BAN (‘11) - Dhaka

6. 107 vs ENG (‘11) - Cardiff

7. 117* vs ENG (‘11) - Delhi

8. 117 vs WI (‘11) - Visakhapatnam

9. 133* vs SL (‘12) - Hobart

10. 108 vs SL (‘12) - Mirpur

11. 183 vs PAK (‘12) - Mirpur

12. 106 vs SL (‘12) - Hambantota

13. 128 vs SL (‘12) - Colombo

14. 102 vs WI (‘13) - Port of Spain

15. 115 vs ZIM (‘13) - Harare

16. 100* vs AUS (‘13) - Jaipur

17. 115 vs AUS (‘13) - Nagpur

18. 123 vs NZ (‘14) - Napier

19. 136 vs BAN (‘14) - Fatullah

20. 127 vs WI (‘14) - Dharamsala

21. 139* vs SL (‘14) - Ranchi

22. 107 vs PAK (‘15) - Adelaide

23. 138 vs SA (‘15) - Chennai

24. 117 vs AUS (‘16) - Melbour

25. 106 vs AUS (‘16) - Canberra

26. 154* vs NZ (‘16) - Mohali

27. 122 vs ENG (‘17) - Pune

28. 111* vs WI (‘17) - Kingston

29. 131 vs SL (‘17) - Colombo

30. 110* vs SL (‘17) - Colombo

31. 121 vs NZ (‘17) - Mumbai

32. 113 vs NZ (‘17) - Kanpur

33. 112 VS SA (‘18) - Durban

34. 160* vs SA (‘18) - Cape Town

35. 129* v SA (‘18) - Centurion

36. 140 vs WI (‘18) - Guwahati

37. 157* vs WI (‘18) - Visakhapatnam

38. 107 vs WI (‘18) - Pune

39. 104 vs AUS (‘19) - Adelaide

40. 116 vs AUS (‘19) - Nagpur

41. 123 vs AUS (‘19) - Ranchi

42. 120 vs WI (‘19) - Port of Spain

43. 114* vs WI (‘19) - Port of Spain

44. 113 vs BAN (‘22) - Chattogram

45. 113 vs SL (‘23) - Guwahati

46. 166* vs SL (‘23) - Thiruvananthapuram

47. 122* vs PAK (‘23) - Colombo

48. 103* vs BAN (‘23) - Pune

49. 101* vs SA (‘23) - Kolkata

50. 100* vs NZ (‘23) - Mumbai

50 Hundreds for Virat Kohli in One Day Internationals - the first player to reach the milestone. He surpassed Sachin Tendulkar's long standing record of 49 centuries. Tendulkar held the record for most ODI hundreds since September 1998 when he surpassed Desmond Haynes' then record of

17 hundreds.

Most hundreds in ODIs:

Player 100s Inngs Runs HS Avg SR

V Kohli 50 279 13794 183 58.69 93.62

S Tendulkar 49 452 18426 200* 44.83 86.23

Rohit Sharma 31 253 10662 264 49.13 91.81

R Ponting 30 365 13704 164 42.03 80.39

S Jayasuriya 28 433 13430 189 32.36 91.20

H Amla 27 178 8113 159 49.46 88.39

Hundreds progression for Kohli:

Hundreds Inngs Runs 50s Avg SR

1-10 68 2964 17 50.24 86.69

11-20 53 2538 11 56.40 97.09

21-30 53 2708 13 67.70 96.06

31-40 30 2106 5 84.24 96.65

41-50 63 3101 22 55.38 97.12

Note: Kohli's first ODI century came in his 13th innings.

u 24 Hundreds for Kohli in India - the most by a player in one country. Tendulkar is behind him in the list with 20 in India and Hashim Amla and Ricky Ponting at a distant third with 14 in South Africa and Australia respectively. Kohli has managed to get to three figures in each of the ten countries he has played ODIs in. He hit hundreds in four consecutive innings in India between December 2017 and October 2018. Only Babar Azam has done so more in a row in one country - five in UAE while AB de Villiers has also hit four in India in 2010-11.

u 27 Hundreds for Kohli in run chases, ten more than the second-placed Tendulkar. 23 of these 27 have come in successful run chases, in which he averages 90.40. The one at Wankhede semifinal was his 23rd while batting first, surpassing Ponting's 22 with only Tendulkar ahead of him (32).

u 5.6 Innings taken per century for Kohli - 50 hundreds in 279 innings. Among the 62 players to have scored at least ten ODI centuries, the closest for anyone is Babar Azam's 6.0 (19 hundreds in 114 innings) and Amla's 6.6 (27 hundreds in 128 innings)

Best innings per 100 ratio:

Player Inngs 100s Runs HS Avg Inngs/100

V Kohli 279 50 13794 183 58.69 5.6

Babar Azam 114 19 5729 158 56.72 6.0

Hashim Amla 178 27 8113 159 49.47 6.6

D Warner 157 22 6896 179 45.67 7.1

Q de Kock 154 21 6767 178 46.03 7.3

Fakhar Zaman81 11 3492 210* 46.56 7.4

S Hope 113 15 4940 170 50.41 7.5

u 10 Hundreds for Kohli against Sri Lanka in 51 innings - the most by a player against a team in ODIs. Kohli is joint second in this list with nine three-figure scores in 41 innings against West Indies alongside Tendulkar's nine against Australia. In 2017-18, Kohli became the first player to hit four consecutive hundreds against an opponent when he did so against West Indies, a record emulated by David Warner against Pakistan.

u 41.32% Conversion rate from fifties to hundreds for Kohli - 50 times he has reached three figures out of the 121 times he got to fifty. Among the players to have at least 25 50+ scores, Kohli has the best conversion rate closely followed by Quinton de Kock (41.18%) and Hashim Amla (40.91%).

Best 50-100 conversion rate in ODIs (25 fifty-plus scores):

Player Conv rate Total inngs 50+ scores 100s

V Kohli 41.3 278 121 50

Q de Kock 41.2 154 51 21

Hashim Amla 40.9 178 66 27

Fakhar Zaman40.7 81 27 11

D Warner 40.0 157 55 22

u 5 Calendar years in which Kohli hit five hundreds - 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2023. The only other player to do so in at least three calendar years was Rohit Sharma who did so in 2017, 2018 and 2019. 2023 was the third time he hit six hundreds in a calendar year (after 2017 and 2018), making him the only player to do so thrice.

u 2 Venues where Kohli scored four hundreds - Mirpur and Colombo RPS. He hit four hundreds in successive matches in Colombo RPS between 2012 and 2013 - a feat only emulated by Amla in Centurion Park.

u 3 Instances of Kohli scoring three (or more) centuries in a series - in South Africa in 2018, against West Indies at home in 2018 and again in World Cup 2023. He is the first player to do so in three separate series/tournaments while four others have done it twice each (Mark Waugh, Chris Gayle, Kumar Sangakkara and Quinton de Kock).

u 52 Balls taken by Kohli for his century against Australia in Jaipur in 2013 - the fastest for India in the format. He hit one off 61 balls later in the series in Nagpur which sits third in the list for fastest ODI hundreds for India with Virender Sehwag's 60-ball hundred against New Zealand in Hamilton in 2009 in the second place. Of his 50 hundreds, he reached his hundred in exactly 100 balls or fewer on 25 instances.

u 119 balls The most Kohli has taken to reach his century, both against South Africa - in Cape Town in 2018 and in Kolkata in World Cup 23rd, which was his 49th. In Cape Town, Kohli hit exactly 100 non-boundary runs.

u 21 Hundreds for Kohli while leading India in ODIs, in just 91 innings - one fewer than Ponting's 22 in 271 innings. Across these 91 innings, Kohli averaged 72.65 - the highest for any skipper with at least 1000 runs in the format.

u 4 Matches in which both Kohli and Rohit hit centuries - the joint second most for a pair in the format alongside Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly. The only pair with more is five by De Villiers and Amla.

u 25 innings The longest gap between two centuries for Kohli in ODIs - between his 43rd (114* vs WI, Port of Spain, 14 Aug 2019) and 44th (113 vs Ban, Chattogram, 10 Dec 2022). He went through with a century in both 2020 and 2021, the only years for him without a century after his debut year (2008) in the format.

u 105 against New Zealand in Guwahati in November 2010 - his fourth hundred in ODIs and the only one he scored at home in a day game.

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