New Delhi. Whenever there is talk of cricket, there is one name on everyone’s tongue and that is Virat Kohli. King Kohli is one of those legendary players who have worked to take cricket forward at the global level. After the great Sachin Tendulkar, who is called the God of Cricket, if anyone’s records are talked about then it is Virat Kohli. He has scored 50 centuries and 72 half-centuries in his ODI career. But do you know when Kohli scored his first ODI century? Let us tell you that on this day i.e. 24 December 2009, Kohli had scored against the Sri Lankan team and due to this century, India was successful in winning that match.
Let us tell you that on 24 December 2009, the fourth ODI series was played between India and Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan team, after winning the toss and batting first, had put a huge score of 315 runs on the board, thanks to Tharanga’s century of 118 runs. The Indian team, which set out to chase this target, had a very bad start. The team got rid of both the veteran opening players Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag cheaply. After this Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli come on the field. There is a very good partnership between both the players. Virat Kohli, who came on the field, played a brilliant innings and scored 107 runs in 114 balls, which was also the first century of his ODI career.
Virat Kohli announced his arrival at the international stage and smashed his maiden ODI century on this day 14 years ago.
Today, 14 years later – he is the only batsman with 50 ODI centuries – the GOAT of the game.pic.twitter.com/cFJXameRFt
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) December 24, 2023
In this innings, 11 fours and one six came from the bat of Virat Kohli. While batting at the other end, Gautam Gambhir also played an innings of 150 runs facing 137 balls. This amazing inning of Gambhir included 14 fours and due to the brilliant innings of both of them, India won that match by 7 wickets.
Eden Gardens witnessed Virat Kohli’s first and record-equalling century in ODI cricket👑👏#HappyBirthdayViratKohli pic.twitter.com/OzOuLWooPE
— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) November 5, 2023
Talking about some records of Virat Kohli’s ODI career, he has scored 13,848 runs in 292 matches with an excellent average of 58.67. Which includes 50 centuries and 72 half-centuries. In this, 1,294 fours and 151 sixes also came from Kohli’s bat. These records are a record in themselves.