{"id":659522,"date":"2023-10-27T11:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=659522"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:51:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:51:01","slug":"when-will-virat-kohli-break-sachins-record-of-odi-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/659522\/","title":{"rendered":"When will Virat Kohli break Sachin&#8217;s record of ODI centuries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-659523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/virat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"438\" \/>Virat Kohli is just two steps away from the record of scoring most centuries in ODI cricket.\u00a0He has scored 48 centuries so far.\u00a0Currently this record is registered in the name of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar.\u00a0Sachin has scored 49 centuries in ODI cricket.\u00a0Virat was about to equal this record in the last match itself but he became a victim of nervous ninety.\u00a0Now that he is playing big innings back to back, it is being speculated that possibly he can break this big record of Sachin in this World Cup.\u00a0However, if former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar is to be believed, Virat can achieve this feat within the next three matches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gavaskar has said that Virat Kohli will leave behind Sachin&#8217;s record by scoring his 50th century on his birthday.\u00a0Let us tell you that Virat&#8217;s birthday falls on 5th November.\u00a0Team India has to face South Africa on this day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gavaskar says, &#8216;Kohli will complete his 50th century against South Africa at Eden Gardens.\u00a0What could be a better occasion for this achievement than your birthday?\u00a0This will be the place where you will score a century and the spectators in the Kolkata stadium will give you a standing ovation.\u00a0The stadium will echo with the noise of applause and whistles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Virat Kohli&#8217;s strong ODI record<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Virat Kohli has so far scored a total of 13437 runs in 274 innings of 286 ODI matches.\u00a0During this period, his batting average was 58.16 and strike rate was 93.69.\u00a0He has scored a total of 48 centuries and 69 half-centuries.\u00a0He is at fourth position in terms of scoring most runs in ODI cricket.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virat Kohli is just two steps away from the record of scoring most centuries in ODI cricket.\u00a0He has scored 48 centuries so far.\u00a0Currently this record is registered in the name of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar.\u00a0Sachin has scored 49 centuries in ODI cricket.\u00a0Virat was about to equal this record in the last match itself but he became a victim of nervous ninety.\u00a0Now that he is playing big innings back to back, it is being speculated that possibly he can break this big record of Sachin in this World Cup.\u00a0However, if former&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":659523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47741],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659524,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659522\/revisions\/659524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}