Virat Kohli

Virat is currently racing towards his 46th ODI and 74th international cricket century. He has hit his 65th ODI fifty.At the time of becoming the ...

He has 49 centuries and 96 fifties in this format, with the best of 200*. [Rohit Sharma](/panache/panache-people-101/rohit-sharma/profileshow/84759429.cms)smashed 42 off 49 balls. He has scored 18,426 runs at an average of 44.83. He overtook Jayawardene, who has scored 12,650 runs in 448 matches, 418 innings at an average of 33.37. His best score in the format is 183. He has 19 centuries and 77 fifties in the format, with the best score of 144.

In the ongoing ODI match against Sri Lanka, Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 166 runs in 110 balls with 13 fours and 8 sixes.

India's star batsman Virat Kohli hit his 46th ODI century during the third ODI against Sri Lanka in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday (January 15).

The top ODI run scorers list is headed by Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar (18,426). Kohli also broke Tendulkar’s record for most ODI centuries at home. Today’s hundred was Kohli’s third three-figure mark in the 50-over format in four innings.

India vs Sri Lanka: Virat Kohli has begun the New Year in imperious form as he hit his 2nd ODI hundred of the series. With the 85-ball 100, Kohli got to his ...

The former captain broke Sachin Tendulkar's record for most ODI hundreds at home in international cricket. Kohli got to his 46th ODI hundred in just 269 matches in the 50-over format while Tendulkar played 463 innings. Kohli got to the landmark in just 85 balls as laid down a marker in the ODI World Cup year.

Anushka Sharma took to Instagram to cheer for husband Virat Kohli as he ended the inning with a boundary to take India to 390/5 against Sri Lanka.

Anushka and Virat welcomed their daughter Praising his performance that took India's score to 390/5, Anushka wrote, "What a guy, what an inning played." Anushka Sharma took to Instagram to cheer for husband Virat Kohli as he ended the inning with a boundary to take India to 390/5 against Sri Lanka. Your strength is contagious and you my love, are LIMITLESS!! Also read: [Virat Kohli opens up about not being fair to Anushka Sharma during bad spell](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/virat-kohli-opens-up-about-not-being-fair-to-anushka-sharma-during-bad-spell-101673603948814.html) The actor took to Instagram Stories to share a photo of her TV screen, which showed Virat raising his bat and helmet, and looking up towards the sky after his innings.

An avalanche of memes flooded Twitter after India batter Virat Kohli toppled multiple Sachin Tendulkar records against Sri Lanka.

Today I was happy to be batting out there and in that space I end up playing good cricket. [January 15, 2023] [On Kohli] It is amazing to see what he does. Virat Kohli has been in sensational nick of late. I want to continue doing that and am content. I watched him growing up and it is incredible to see what he does. Kohli has nine tons against the West Indies as well. This was his 10th century against Sri Lanka, making him the first man to score that many tons against a single team in ODIs. Moreover, Virat Kohli is the quickest to amass 46 centuries in ODI cricket – a milestone he achieved in just 259 innings. A sublime Virat Kohli completed his hundred in 85 deliveries but immediately shifted gears after accomplishing the landmark. It is the most number of sixes the former India captain has slammed in during an ODI knock. [Mahela Jayawardene to occupy](https://clutchpoints.com/india-legend-issues-emotional-public-apology-to-suryakumar-yadav) the fifth spot among the highest run-getters in ODIs.

Virat Kohli put on a show in the final match of the series against Sri Lanka in Thiruvananthapuram as he notched up his 46th ODI ton.

Gill brought up his second ODI ton (116 off 97 balls) after which Kohli applied the finishing touches as India set Sri Lanka a massive target of 391. His sensational knock was laced with 13 fours and eight maximums, the highest sixes he has smashed in an ODI innings. The hundred was his 21st at home in ODIs, taking him past Sachin Tendulkar's tally of 20.

Virat Kohli produced a magnificent knock, smashing an unbeaten 166 during the third and final ODI of the series against Sri Lanka. | Cricket.

Kohli began the innings with a flurry of boundaries before accumulating runs with his exemplary running between the wickets. His first of his eight sixes came in the 80s and it was a mishit over long on, leaving him in a chuckle. During the final over of the Indian innings, Kohli hit two sixes; he slapped the second wide of long-off boundary. Kohli was batting on 82 by the end of the 40th over of the innings and accelerated at a stunning rate, scoring the remaining 84 runs in just 34 deliveries. Rohit had also scored an important 42 off 49 deliveries before Kohli, alongside Gill, forged a 131-run stand for the second wicket. Virat Kohli produced an incredible outing in the third and final ODI of the series against Sri Lanka on Sunday, as he smashed an unbeaten 166 off just 110 deliveries in Thiruvananthapuram.

In recent times he has rarely made batting look as enjoyable as he did in his 110-ball 166 in Kerala that lifted India to the match winning 390.

But Kohli stretched his arms, dragged his body closer to the pitch of the ball so that he could get more power into it and swirled his wrists ferociously to cuff the ball over long-on. Then there was the chipped extra-cover drive, standing on his toes and arching his body to manufacture the room for the shot. He was on his knees when he completed the shot and crackled in laughter as it sailed into the stands. I am in a nice space right now, just being organic,” Kohli said at the end of the match. But Kohli would counter this by stepping out and meeting the ball on the full. A contented smile adorned his face as he walked back to the pavilion to the applause of the spectators, teammates and adversaries. There was not only mastery and magic, artistry and freedom, but more importantly enjoyment, a quality that was missing from his game as recently as the middle of last year. He waved his hands at them and smiled, his face still aglow in the light of his latest hundred, his 46th in this format, his 21st at home, the most by any batsman, and his third century in his last four innings. But here, he seemed like a man who loved the sport as deeply and madly as he had when he first fell in love with it. The knock was filled with Kohli shots. Just before the start of Sri Lanka’s chase, Virat Kohli bounded out of the dressing room, and as he ran past the dugout onto the ground, he cast a half-skyward glance. He looked up to see the frenzied joy of the fans, most of them wrapped in No.

Virat Kohli smashed his 46th ODI century during the third and final match of the series against Sri Lanka on Sunday. | Cricket.

Sri Lanka's legendary former all-rounder Sanath Jayasuriya is fifth with 28 centuries to his name. Following the knock, fans and cricketers alike lauded Kohli and as the stats for most centuries in ODIs were shown on the television screens during Sri Lanka's run-chase, Kumar Sangakkara had a rather hilarious remark. Thanks to Kohli's brilliant innings, India posted a mammoth score of 390/5 in fifty overs, with Shubman Gill also scoring a century (116).

Kohli's third century in his last four matches and 116 by opener Shubman Gill powered India to 390-5 in Thiruvananthapuram. Fast bowler Mohammed Siraj then ...

“The way he has come up in the last few years is good to see. Today I was happy to be batting out there, and in that space I end up playing my best cricket.” I have always played for the right reasons, help the team as much as possible.” India went past New Zealand’s 290-run thrashing of Ireland in 2008. “I want to continue being in this space where I am relaxed and content with how I am playing, and that for me is the most important thing. “Mindset is always to help the team as much as I can, bat for as long as possible and put the team in a strong position.

Virat Kohli that he is not desperate for milestones after his unbeaten 166 helped India crush Sri Lanka by 317 runs and record the highest ever victory ...

India broke the record for the biggest victory in ODIs by beating Sri Lanka by 317 runs in Thiruvananthapuram.

It is Sri Lanka's [fourth-lowest](https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/team/lowest_innings_totals.html?class=2;id=8;type=team)total and the [third-lowest](https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/team/lowest_innings_totals.html?class=2;id=6;type=opposition)by any team against India. [lowest](https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/team/lowest_innings_totals.html?class=2;id=8;opposition=6;type=team)against India in men's ODIs. [Virat Kohli](http://www.espncricinfo.com/player/virat-kohli-253802)'s 166 not out and Sri Lanka's total of 73 all out - the second-highest difference between a batter's score and the opposition's total in a men's ODI. And by scoring his 46th hundred, Kohli is only three away from equalling [Sachin Tendulkar's record](https://www.espncricinfo.com/ask/cricket-qna/most-hundreds-by-a-player&tournament=odi)tally of 49 ODI centuries. [an opponent](https://www.espncricinfo.com/ask/cricket-qna/most-hundreds-against-an-opponent&tournament=odi). The previous record was New Zealand's 290-run win against Ireland in 2008.

Virat Kohli shattered multiple records in his match-winning knock of 166* off 110 balls against Sri Lanka on Sunday. Kohli's batting masterclass powered ...

The batting maestro also holds the record of smashing the most number of centuries (20) at home. I have always played for the right reasons, help the team as much as possible. Kohli played an unbeaten knock of 166 off 110 balls to finish the series as the leading run-getter. Mohammed Siraj-inspired Team India bowled out Sri Lanka for a paltry total of 73 in 22 overs to seal the 3rd ODI by a massive margin of 317 runs. Extending his free-scoring run in the 50-over format, Kohli slammed his 46th ODI ton to help Team India post a gigantic total at Thiruvananthapuram. For me, it's just a byproduct of the intent I have, mindset that I play with.

As an anchor in ODIs who can accelerate in the death overs as he did on Sunday, Kohli is proving to be indispensable.

"I am in a nice space right now and I just want to continue with the same. And I am just happy that I am able to do that and able to continue being in the space where I am relaxed. That has been the case in the past as well. I am content with how I am playing, and that, for me, is the most important thing. Before the 2022 Asia Cup, there was a three-year period when Kohli failed to score a single international hundred. In the 25 balls he faced after reaching his hundred, he smashed three fours and seven sixes. He had brought up his fifty in 47 balls and his hundred in 80. [in Thiruvananthapuram](https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/sri-lanka-in-india-2022-23-1348629/india-vs-sri-lanka-3rd-odi-1348645/full-scorecard), he hit his third ODI hundred in the last four innings in the format. For me, it's just about enjoying my batting and helping the team as much as I can. By the time this year ends, he may even become the first batter to score 50 ODI hundreds, breaking Tendulkar's record of 49. He was as clinical as he has ever been. After the first hundred in that sequence - [against Bangladesh last month](https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-in-bangladesh-2022-23-1340842/bangladesh-vs-india-3rd-odi-1340847/full-scorecard)- there was a Test series, and Kohli admitted that things didn't quite go as planned for him there.

Virat Kohli thanked India's throwdown specialists D Raghavendra, Nuwan Seneviratne and Dayanand Garani for making him the player he is today.

Kohli said he enjoyed batting with the youngster. “I was disappointed when I got out in the first ODI. When I start like this, and I start feeling confident, then things usually go well,” he said. [Mumbai](https://indianexpress.com/section/cities/mumbai/) in the late 1990s. The 34-year-old is now only three short of equalling Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 centuries. The 42-year-old has worked with Sri Lanka for a decade as the senior team’s fielding coach before 2018. [Virat Kohli](https://indianexpress.com/about/virat-kohli/) in the third ODI, also credited the trio. The left-handed Sri Lankan was roped in as a throwdown specialist in 2018 to help Indian batsmen combat Pakistan’s left-arm pacers, Mohammad Amir and Junaid Khan. He comes from remote Jamatiya village in East Midnapore district. A Civic Police Volunteer in You guys should remember their names and faces because, behind our success, a lot of effort has been put in by these guys,” he added. They always try to get us out and make sure that they test us regularly,” said Kohli.

Suryakumar Yadav was seen clicking fan's pictures with Kohli during third IND vs SL ODI at Thiruvananthapuram.

“Today I was happy to be batting out there and in that space I end up playing good cricket. [Guwahati](https://indianexpress.com/section/cities/guwahati/) by 67 runs and the second in [Kolkata](https://indianexpress.com/section/cities/kolkata) by four wickets. The pictures of the incident have gone viral where a baffled Kohli can be seen trying to save himself even as his other teammates were also left shell-shocked.