Team India skipper Virat Kohli scored his 30th ODI century on Sunday as the visitors humiliated hosts Sri Lanka and won the series 5-0. With the ton in Colombo, Kohli got one step closer to a long-standing record held by Sachin Tendulkar.
The 28-year old’s 30th ton took him level with former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting for the second most number of centuries scored in ODIs, Tendulkar leads the charts with 49.
So far, Kohli has played 194 ODIs and maintained an average of 55.75.
Tendulkar’s 30th century came in 2001 against South Africa in Johannesburg. At the end of that year, Tendulkar had played 280 ODI matches in his career.
This means that the one in which he got to his 30th ton must have been his 274th match, almost 100 more than what Kohli took to reach the same figure.
