Virat Kohli Century in Perth: After Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli has also created a new history by scoring a brilliant century in the Perth Test match. Kohli brilliantly completed his century after the tea break on the third day of the first Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Kohli completed the 30th century of his Test career in 143 balls. In this way, Kohli ended the century drought that had been going on for the last 1 year and 4 months. The last century from Kohli’s bat came against the West Indies in Port of Spain in July 2023.
Virat Kohli has now become the foreign player to score the most centuries in international cricket against the Australian team in Australia. Kohli broke Jack Hobbs’ record of 9 centuries. Kohli now has 10 centuries in Australia against the Kangaroo team in all three formats. Not only this, Kohli has also surpassed Australia’s great batsman Don Bradman in terms of scoring the most Test centuries. Bradman had scored 29 Test centuries while Kohli now has 30 Test centuries.
Indian batsman with the most centuries in Test cricket
- Sachin Tendulkar – 51
- Rahul Dravid- 36
- Sunil Gavaskar-34
- Virat Kohli- 30
Virat Kohli always likes the Australian soil. After failing on the England tour in 2014, Virat Kohli made a great comeback in Australia. After this, he also performed brilliantly in Australia in 2018 and now he has done wonders by scoring a brilliant century in the very first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Kohli now
Most Test centuries in Australia (Indian)
- 7 – Virat Kohli*
- 6 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 5 – Sunil Gavaskar
Virat Kohli now has 81 centuries in international cricket. Kohli is now 19 centuries away from Sachin’s record of 100 centuries. Kohli has scored 30 centuries in Tests, 50 in ODIs, and one in T20I cricket. Ricky Ponting is in third place in terms of scoring the most centuries.
Most centuries in International cricket
- 100 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 81 – Virat Kohli*
- 71 – Ricky Ponting
- 63 – Kumar Sangakkara
- 62 – Jacques Kallis