IND vs AUS: Before today only 2 players had made this record, now Kohli has created history
Virat Kohli became the third player to do so in international cricket.
The pride of the Australian team is set to be shattered at the Optus Stadium in Perth. At the end of the third day’s play of the first Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 against India, host Australia had lost three wickets at the score of 12 while chasing the target of 534 runs. Team India’s dominance has been seen since the first day of this test match, in which even once the Australian team did not get any chance to make a comeback. In the third day of the Perth Test match, two century innings were seen from Team India, one of which was played by Yashasvi Jaiswal and the other century was seen from the bat of Virat Kohli. Kohli had not been able to play big innings in Test cricket for a long time, due to which he had to face criticism, but now Kohli has answered everyone with the bat and has scored the 30th century of his Test career.
Virat Kohli became the third player to do so after Sachin and Ponting.
When Virat Kohli came to bat in the second session on the third day of the Perth Test match, Team India was in a very strong position at that time and Kohli took advantage of this and batted cautiously in the beginning and after that he established his feet and increased the pace of runs. During this period, Kohli got the support of Washington Sundar and Nitish Reddy. In which both of them batted aggressively and put the Australian bowlers completely on the backfoot. Kohli played an unbeaten inning of 100 runs facing 143 balls which included 8 fours and 2 sixes. With this century, Kohli also managed to achieve a big feat, in which he has become the third player in international cricket after Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting, who has 30 or more century innings in both Test and ODI. .
Players who have scored 30 or more centuries in both Test and ODI
Sachin Tendulkar – 51 Test centuries, 49 ODI centuries
Ricky Ponting – 41 Test centuries, 30 ODI centuries
Virat Kohli – 30 Test centuries, 50 ODI centuries
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