ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Virat Kohli Set to Break Sachin Tendulkar’s Century Record

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Virat Kohli can break this great record of Sachin Tendulkar against New Zealand

ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Team India’s star player Virat Kohli has recently shown signs of coming back in form by scoring a century against Pakistan. Virat Kohli is also the player who has scored the most centuries in the ODI format.

In this Champions Trophy, his eyes will be on a record that no cricketer in the world has been able to make to date. To make this world record, Virat Kohli just needs to score a century. In such a situation, his eyes will be on making a world record by scoring a century in this year’s ICC Champions Trophy. 

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Virat’s eyes on the mega record of centuries

Virat Kohli is close to achieving another important milestone in the cricket world with his brilliant batting. He is just one century away from scoring 52 centuries in ODI cricket, if Virat manages to do so, then he will become the batsman who has scored the most centuries in any one format of cricket. Currently, he is at par with Sachin Tendulkar, who had scored 51 centuries in Tests. In such a situation, Virat needs only 1 century to top this list. 

Virat Kohli started his ODI career in 2008 and he started scoring centuries in 2010. Since then, many such great innings have come out from the bat of the run machine. Virat has scored runs consistently in this format, which makes him one of the best batsmen in world cricket. Virat’s streak of scoring centuries in ODI cricket has continued and he will continue to score such great innings in the future as well. 

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Memorable innings played against Pakistan

Virat Kohli played a brilliant innings of 100 runs against Pakistan with the help of 7 fours in 111 balls. Let us tell you that Virat Kohli played the ICC Champions Trophy for the first time in the year 2009 but this was the first time when Virat scored a century in this tournament. At the same time, this was his 82nd century in international cricket. He is second in terms of scoring the most centuries in international cricket. Sachin Tendulkar is at the top with 100 centuries.

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