Virat Kohli hit his first ODI hundred in three years when he reached the landmark within the third and ultimate ODI in opposition to Bangladesh, off 85 balls, in Chattogram on Saturday. Kohli acquired there with a most over superb leg within the thirty ninth over. Kohli’s final ODI ton got here in opposition to the West Indies on August 14 in 2019. Kohli added a staggering 290 for the second wicket with Ishan Kishan, who smacked the quickest ever ODI double hundred, off simply 138 balls.
Kohli, who now has a staggering 72 worldwide lots of, has gone previous Australian nice Ricky Ponting within the record of batters with most worldwide lots of. He is second behind Indian nice Sachin Tendulkar, who ended his profession with a mindboggling 100 worldwide centuries. Kohli now has 27 Test lots of, 44 ODI tons and one century in T20Is.
Earlier this 12 months, throughout the Asia Cup within the UAE, Kohli scored his first century in 1,021 days in India’s Asia Cup victory over Afghanistan in Dubai. The 33-year-old, who earlier than that evening had final hit a century in a Test in opposition to Bangladesh on 23 November 2019, made an unbeaten 122 off 61 balls as India made 212-2 from their 20 overs.