IND vs AUS: Virat scores a historic century, becomes first player to achieve this, Breaks 5 records together

In the second ODI against Australia in Nagpur, Virat Kohli scored a historical century and completed his 40th ton. Kohli played a fine knock of 116 runs in 120 balls and helped the team recover from a poor start to the respectable total of 250/10 in 48.2 overs.

Apart from Kohli, Vijay Shankar contributed important 46 runs but the rest of the team did not make any significant contribution to the teams total.

Batting first, The Indian openers had a poor and Rohit Sharma was dismissed for a duck, After this, Shikhar Dhawan was out for 21 and India lost both the openers for 38 runs in the 9th over.

Later Kohli held one end and scored his runs with Shankar and Jadeja and scored a brilliant century. With this knock, he has created 5 big records together.

1. Fastest to complete 9000 International runs:

Virat Kohli is only the 6th player to score 9000 runs in International cricket as captain and the fastest to get there in 159 innings and left Ricky Ponting (203 Innings) behind.

2. First century against Australia after 18 Innings:

This is Virat Kohli's first century against Australia at home in 18 International innings. Last home ton against the Aussies came in 2013 also at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur.

3. Virat Kohli becomes the first player to achieve this:

Virat Kohli becomes the first player to score seven or more centuries against three different teams in ODIs.
vs Sri Lanka (8)
vs Windies (7)
vs Australia (7)

4.  Most centuries scored by any batsmen since 2017:

Virat Kohli has scored 17 centuries, which is most since the start of 2017. The next batsmen after Virat Kohli is Rohit Sharma, who has scored 14 centuries.

5. 1000 fours in One-day Internationals:

Virat Kohli becomes the 3 Indian players to complete 1000 fours in ODIs, after Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag.

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