Virat Kohli few steps away to break Sachin Tendulkar’s record

Cape Town: Team India captain Virat Kohli has once again showed his tremendous batting performance against South Africa in the 3rd One Day International (ODI) by scoring 160 not-out innings because of which Men-In-Blue defeated hosts by 124 runs and took lead of 3-0 out of 6 matches’ series.

With Kohli’s this fablous batting performance South African bowlers faced the threat of his bat once again in the third ODI, Kohli scored another century and created panic in South African pavilion.

During the second one day match in Cape Town, Kohli played a smokeless innings of 160 not out. Thanks to Team India, they beat South Africa by 124 runs and took an important 3-0 lead in the series.

Before this Kohli storm was seen against Pakistan when he played the longest one-day innings. The Indian team skipper, who is famous for his aggressive sportsperson skills, has now begun to prove Sachin’s record as a dwarf.

With another century, Virat Kohli read to break Sachin Tendulkar’s record:

Basically, Sachin had scored 49 centuries in ODIs and 51 hundreds in Tests. At the same time, Kohli have secured 21 centuries in Test format and if go with cricket expert comments then they believe that Kohli will easily break the records of master blaster.

Till yet Virat Kohli has broken another record of Sourav Ganguly and now he has made 12 centuries as captain which is a record for any Indian as before this only Ganguly had secured 11 centuries in his captaincy.

On other hand, only Ponting’s name has been registered in records for making most of 22 centuries in the history, as he is the only Australian batsman with one such record.

Now, Kohli is just behind Sachin Tendulkar, who has scored the most centuries in ODIs. The Indian skipper has made the 34th century in one-day career with his fire-fighting batting. With Tendulkar leaving the ODI century, Kohli is now just 16 steps away.

Overall, Kohli is emerging as the biggest star for Indian cricket as with the speed Kohli’s bat is fluttering on the field; it seems that many records of Sachin are on the way to break.