Virat Kohli in ODI's

Virat Kohli has played 85 ODI games so far, and scored 11 centuries. 11 Centuries is a huge number considering he is only around in World cricket for 4 years.

ODI Centuries are a difficult task, just to give few examples, great players of modern era such as Misbah Ul Haq, G.Thorpe, Ian Botham,  M.Vaughan have scored 0 centuries. 11 centuries from Virat Kohli are greater than G.Gambhir, M.Hayden, Inzamam (10 each), K.Pietersen (9), S.Fleming, J.Miandad (8), Z.Abbas, D.Gower, D.Jones, Dhoni, M.Clarke, Azhar (7) etc etc.

Virat Kohli is tied with perhaps all time greatest cricketers in ODI Sir Vivian Richards and A.Desilva in terms of scoring centuries.

Now let’s compare Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar with respect to ODI’s. In 85 ODI’s, Kohli has scored 3590 runs with strike rate of 86.31 and average of 50.56. Sachin Tendulkar in his first 85 ODI’s scored 2393 runs with a very modest average of 33.23 with only 2 centuries.

Both Tendulkar centuries came in sub-continent (Colombo and Vadodara), while Kohli already have 2 centuries in England and Australia (Cardiff and Hobart) out of 11. Kohli has not only performed well in England, Australia and Sub continent pitches, he just missed out in 2 other continents from scoring century. Kohli scored 94 in West Indies at Kingston, Jamaica and 87 not out in Port Elizabeth, S.Africa. In last 4 years, Kohli has scored runs against all oppositions in all possible countries. This proves that Virat Kohli is the biggest and brightest thing happening at this moment for Indian and World Cricket.