Virat Kohli’s century in Perth: After Yasshwi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli has also created a new history by scoring a brilliant century in the Perth Test match. Kohli completed his century brilliantly after the tea break on the third day of the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Kohli completed the 30th century of his Test career in 143 balls. In this way, Kohli ended the drought of the century that had been going on for the last 1 year and 4 months. Kohli’s previous century with the bat came against West Indies in Port of Spain in July 2023.
Virat Kohli has now become the highest foreign player to score a century in international cricket against an Australian team in Australia. Kohli broke Jack Hobbs’ record of 9 centuries. Kohli now has 10 centuries in all three formats against the Kangaroo team in Australia. Not only this, Kohli has also surpassed Australia’s great batsman Don Bradman in terms of scoring the most Test centuries. Bradman scored 29 Test centuries while Kohli now has 30 Test centuries.
Indian batsman with 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 a flop in England tour in 2014, Virat Kohli made a great comeback in Australia. After this, in the year 2018 also he performed brilliantly in Australia and now he has done wonders by scoring a brilliant century in the very first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Kohli now
Most Test centuries in Australia (Indian)
- 7 – Virat Kohli*
- 6 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 5 – Sunil Gavaskar
Virat Kohli now has 81 centuries in international cricket. Kohli is now 19 centuries away from Sachin’s record of 100 centuries. Kohli has scored 30 centuries in Tests, 50 in ODIs and one century in T20I cricket. Ricky Ponting is third in terms of scoring the 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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