Virat Kohli breaks world record with century, sets new record in ODI cricket

Samira Vishwas

Tezzbuzz|30-11-2025

Virat Kohli Shatters Sachin Tendulkar’s All-Time ‘Centuries Record’

King Kohli completed his century by hitting a four on the 5th ball of the 38th over.

IND vs SA ODI: In the ODI match played against South Africa in Ranchi, Virat Kohli displayed strong batting and scored the 52nd ODI century of his career. He completed this century in just 102 balls. This is the 83rd century of Kohli, who has scored the most centuries in this format, in international cricket. With this century, Kohli also broke the world records of Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.

King Kohli completed his century by hitting a four on the 5th ball of the 38th over. After playing some dashing shots in the initial stages, he showed no haste as he approached his century and touched the three-figure mark.

This is Kohli’s third century in the last 5 ODI matches in Ranchi. At the same time, this became his sixth ODI century against South Africa, making him the batsman to score the most ODI centuries against this team. During this period he left behind David Warner and Sachin Tendulkar.

Kohli broke Ponting-Tendulkar’s world record

With this inning, Virat Kohli broke the world records of Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar. He broke Ponting’s record of 217 sixes by becoming the batsman who hit the most number of sixes while batting at number three in the ODI format. In this match, Kohli went ahead of Ponting as soon as he hit two sixes.

Also, after completing the fifty, Kohli also broke Sachin Tendulkar’s world record of scoring the highest score of 50+ on home ground. Sachin had achieved this feat 58 times, while Kohli has now scored 50+ in home ODIs for the 59th time.

Virat Kohli became the world’s first batsman

Apart from breaking records, Virat Kohli also set another historical record. He has become the first cricketer in the world to score 10,000 runs in bilateral ODI matches. Before this match, Kohli had 9,936 runs in bilateral ODI matches. He created history as soon as he completed the 64th run in the match.

136 run partnership with Rohit

Virat Kohli came to the crease when Yashasvi had returned to the pavilion early. Together with Rohit, he not only strengthened the Indian innings but also demonstrated batting in excellent rhythm. Right from the start he hit a flurry of fours and after a few balls also hit sixes. Kohli and Rohit laid the foundation of a strong score for India by making a big partnership of 136 runs** for the second wicket.

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