Every century of Virat Kohli sets a new record, but in the three Test matches played in the last 14 months, he has not scored a single century.
Virat Kohli: Team India’s star batsman Virat Kohli has announced his retirement from international T20 cricket. At present, he is playing only in Tests and ODIs for Team India. But, he has already made many records with his amazing batting style.
Virat Kohli is at the top of the list of highest century scorers in ODI cricket. However, it seems that he is playing a little slow in Test cricket now. Every century of Virat Kohli sets a new record, but in the three Test matches played in the last 14 months, he has not scored a single century.
No century came out of Virat Kohli’s bat in the last 14 months
Virat Kohli scored his last Test century on 20 July 2023 against West Indies in Port of Spain. In that match, Kohli played a brilliant innings of 121 runs. After this, he scored 38, 76, 46, 12, and 6 runs respectively in 5 innings of 3 Test matches. At the same time, he has not scored a century in ODI cricket for almost a year. Virat Kohli has scored 54, 24, 14 and 20 runs in his last 5 ODIs.
Now it is difficult for Kohli to break Sachin’s record
He could score only 58 runs in the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka in August last month. Kohli scored his last ODI century on 15 November 2023 in the World Cup semi-final against New Zealand. Now, Virat Kohli is 35 years old, and the fast pace of his centuries seems to be slowing down. It seems that he has lost his hunger to score runs.
Is Virat Kohli’s era coming to an end?
He currently has 80 centuries in international cricket, and he is 21 centuries away from Sachin Tendulkar’s world record of 100 centuries. At the age of 35, if Kohli has to remain in international cricket till 2027, he will have to score at least 7 centuries every year. Looking at the current form, it seems extremely difficult for Kohli to break Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 100 centuries.
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