Afghanistan batsman surpassed Virat Kohli, equalled the record of the great Sachin Tendulkar

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A three-match ODI series was played between Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Afghanistan won this series 2-1. Afghanistan performed very well in the third ODI match and defeated Bangladesh by 8 wickets. In this match, Afghanistan’s wicketkeeper-batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored a brilliant century. His team was able to win this match only because of his century. This was his third international century this year. This was also the 8th ODI century of his career. With this century, Gurbaz left Team India’s legendary batsman Virat Kohli behind in a special record. He has also equaled Sachin Tendulkar.

Gurbaz went ahead of Virat.

Gurbaz’s eighth ODI century helped him overtake Kohli, but he could not overtake the great Sachin Tendulkar. Gurbaz played only 46 innings to score his eighth ODI century. Apart from this, he has scored 8 ODI centuries at the age of 22. Only Sachin Tendulkar and South Africa’s Quinton de Kock had scored 8 centuries at such a young age. Virat Kohli had 7 ODI centuries to his name at this age. In such a situation, he has now gone ahead of Virat Kohli in this list. Apart from this, Gurbaz has come to third place in the list of batsmen who have scored 8 ODI centuries in the least number of ODI innings.

Most ODI centuries by a 22-year-old

  • 8 – Rehmanullah Gurbaz
  • 8 – Sachin Tendulkar 
  • 8 – Quinton de Kock 
  • 7 – Virat Kohli 
  • 6 – Babar Azam 
  • 6 – Upul Tharanga

Least innings to reach 8 ODI centuries:

  1. Hashim Amla: 43 innings
  2. Babar Azam: 44 innings
  3. Rahmanullah Gurbaz: 46 innings
  4. Imam ul Haq: 47 innings
  5. Quinton de Kock: 52 innings
  6. Calum MacLeod: 56 innings
  7. Shikhar Dhawan: 57 innings

how was the match

In the Afghanistan vs Bangladesh 3rd ODI, Bangla Tigers won the toss and decided to bat first. They scored 244 runs in 50 overs thanks to Mahmudullah’s 98 and Mehdi Hasan Miraz’s 66. Afghanistan was given a target of 245 runs to win this match. They scored 246 runs in 48.2 overs losing just 5 wickets and won this match by 5 wickets.