Virat Kohli became the third player to do so in international cricket.
The pride of the Australian team will be destroyed at Optus Stadium in Perth. At the end of the third day of the first Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 against India, hosts Australia had lost three wickets at a score of 12 while chasing the target of 534 runs. The dominance of the Indian team has been seen from the first day of this test match, in which not even once did the Australian team have any chance of a comeback. On the third day of the Perth Test match, two innings centuries were seen from the Indian team, one of which was played by Yashasvi Jaiswal and the other century was seen from the bat of Virat Kohli. Kohli had not been able to play big innings in Test cricket for a long time due to which he had to face criticism but now Kohli has answered everyone with the bat and scored the 30th century of his Test career.
Virat Kohli became the third player to do so after Sachin and Ponting.
When Virat Kohli came out to bat in the second session of the third day of the Perth test match, the Indian team was in a very strong position at that time and Kohli took advantage of this and batted cautiously at first and then set his feet and increased the pace of the races. During this period, Kohli got the support of Washington Sundar and Nitish Reddy. In which both batted aggressively and put the Australian players completely at a disadvantage. Kohli played an unbeaten innings of 100 runs facing 143 balls which included 8 fours and 2 sixes. With this century, Kohli also achieved a great feat, becoming only the third player in international cricket after Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting, to have 30 or more century innings in both Tests and ODIs.
Players who have scored 30 centuries or more in both Tests and ODIs
Sachin Tendulkar – 51 Test centuries, 49 ODI centuries
Ricky Ponting – 41 Test centuries, 30 ODI centuries
Virat Kohli – 30 Test centuries, 50 ODI centuries
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