Afghanistan batsman surpasses Virat Kohli to equal legendary Sachin Tendulkar's record

A three-match ODI series was played between Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Afghanistan team has won this series 2-1. Afghanistan put on a brilliant performance in the third ODI and beat Bangladesh by 8 wickets. Afghanistan’s wicketkeeper batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored a brilliant century in this match. His team was able to win this match only because of his century. This was his third international century this year. It was also his 8th career ODI century. With this century, Gurbaz has surpassed Team India’s veteran batsman Virat Kohli in a special record. Along with this, he has also equaled Sachin Tendulkar.

Gurbaaz left Virat behind

Gurbaz’s eighth ODI century helped him overtake Kohli, but he could not overtake the great Sachin Tendulkar. Gurbaz took just 46 innings to score his eighth ODI century. Apart from this he has scored 8 ODI centuries at the age of 22. Only Sachin Tendulkar and South Africa’s Quinton de Kock scored 8 centuries at such a young age. Virat Kohli had 7 ODI centuries at this age. In such a situation, he has now overtaken Virat Kohli in this list. Apart from this, Gurbaz has moved to the third position in the list of batsmen who have scored 8 ODI centuries in the fewest ODI innings.

Highest ODI century at the age of 22

8 – Rahmanullah Gurbaz
8 – Sachin Tendulkar
8 – Quinton de Kock
7 – Virat Kohli
6 – Babar Azam
6 – Upul Tharanga

8 Fewest innings to reach ODI century:

Hashim Amla: 43 innings
Babar Azam: 44 innings
Rahmanullah Gurbaz: 46 innings
Imam ul Haq: 47 innings
Quinton de Kock: 52 innings
Callum McLeod: 56 innings
Shikhar Dhawan: 57 innings

How was the match?

In Afghanistan vs Bangladesh third ODI, Bangla Tigers won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 244 runs in 50 overs with the help of Mahmudullah’s 98 and Mehdi Hasan Miraz’s 66. Afghanistan were given a target of 245 runs to win this match. They scored 246 runs for the loss of just 5 wickets in 48.2 overs and won the match by 5 wickets.