Virat Kohli Break Record of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar & Mahela Jayawardene Scoring Century against Sri Lanka | fifa2022-23.com updates

Virat Kohli scored his 46th ODI century against Sri Lanka on Sunday when India take on Sri Lanka in third One Day International. Kohli played just 85 balls to reach his 74th international century and second century of year 2023. Virat overtook Sachin Tendulkar to set new records after striking a hundred.Kohli maintained his outstanding performance and joined the elite group of top 5 ODI run scorers.

The New Year is very lucky for Virat as he hit back 2 back two centuries in this year, his first centuary came up against Sri Lanka in the first ODI where he smashed 113 runs. Sachin Tendulakar hold a record of scoring 20 centuries on home ground which has been broken by Virat Kohli when he score his 21st century in India.

150 for @imVkohli 👏👏

Live - https://t.co/q4nA9Ff9Q2 #INDvSL @mastercardindia pic.twitter.com/mlpfmqv1DF

— BCCI (@BCCI) January 15, 2023

Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka was surpassed by Kohli to become the top 5 batters in ODI history in terms of runs scored. In the elite list, he now trails only Tendulkar, Kumar Sangakkara, Ricky Ponting, and Sanath Jayasuriya.

Virat Kohli remains without 100 for almost 1214 days and it was like a drought for Kohli. The first century that came up after so manys days of struggle was against Bangladesh when India take a tour of Bangladesh.

In the match when Virat Kohli scored a century, Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bat against Sri Lanka on Sunday. Hardik Pandya and Umran Malik were replaced in India's starting XI by Suryakumar Yadav and Washington Sundar.

Virat Kohli was utterly glorious 🙌 🙌 as he creamed 1⃣6⃣6⃣* and was our top performer from the first innings of the third #INDvSL ODI 👏 👏

A summary of his stunning batting display 🔽 #TeamIndia pic.twitter.com/SWrC5Oanhg

— BCCI (@BCCI) January 15, 2023

List of players scored most centuries on Home Ground

21 centuries - Virat Kohli

20 centuries - Sachin Tendulkar

14 centuries - Hashim Amla

13 centuries - Ricky Ponting

12 centuries - Ross Taylor

The Century was then converted to 150 by Virat Kohli against Sri Lanka in third ODI and India finishes 390-5 playing first and give Sri Lanka a huge target of 391.