Virat Kohli Century in Perth: After Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli has also created a new history by scoring a brilliant century in the Perth test match. Kohli completed his century in spectacular fashion after the tea break on the third day of the first Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Kohli completed the 30th century of his Test career in 143 balls. In this way Kohli put an end to the century-old drought that had lasted for the last year and 4 months. Kohli’s previous century with the bat was against the West Indies in Port of Spain in July 2023.
Virat Kohli has now become the foreign player who has scored the most centuries in international cricket against the Australian team in Australia. Kohli broke Jack Hobbs’ record of 9 centuries. Kohli now has 10 centuries to his name in Australia against the Kangaroo team in all three formats. Not only this, Kohli has also left behind the great Australian batsman Don Bradman in terms of scoring most Test centuries. Bradman had scored 29 Test centuries, while Kohli now has 30 Test centuries to his name.
Indian batsman who scored most centuries in Test cricket
- Sachin Tendulkar – 51
- Rahul Dravid- 36
- Sunil Gavaskar-34
- Virat Kohli – 30
Virat Kohli has always loved the soil of Australia. After failing to tour England in 2014, Virat Kohli made a brilliant comeback in Australia. After this, in the year 2018 he also performed brilliantly in Australia and now he has done wonders by scoring a brilliant century in the first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Kohli now
Most Test centuries in Australia (India)
- 7 – Virat Kohli*
- 6 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 5 – Sunil Gavaskar
Virat Kohli now has 81 centuries to his name in international cricket. Kohli is now 19 centuries away from Sachin’s record 100 centuries. Kohli has scored 30 centuries in Test, 50 in ODIs and one century in T20I cricket. Ricky Ponting is third in terms of scoring most centuries.
Most centuries in international cricket
- 100 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 81 – Virat Kohli*
- 71 – Ricky Ponting
- 63 – Kumar Sangakkara
- 62 – Jacques Kallis
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