Virat Kohli scripted history on his 35th birthday (November 5, 2023), equalling Sachin Tendulkar’s tally of 49 ODI hundreds during the 2023 World Cup game against South Africa in Kolkata.

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After scoring 95 and 88 against New Zealand and Sri Lanka, Kohli finally converted his knock into a hundred, making his 49th ODI ton on Sunday against South Africa. The former India skipper, who made his ODI debut in 2008, scored his first century in the format in December 2009, also at Eden Gardens. Fourteen years later, he equalled Tendulkar’s record for the most ODI hundreds, getting to the landmark with a 119-ball knock on a tough track.

Kohli took 277 innings to score 49 hundreds, while Tendulkar needed 451 innings for the feat.

Here’s the entire list of Virat Kohli hundreds.

  • 107 v Sri Lanka, Eden Gardens, 24-Dec-09
  • 102* v Bangladesh, Mirpur, 11-Jan-10
  • 118 v Australia, Visakhapatnam, 20-Oct-10
  • 105 v New Zealand, Guwahati, 28-Nov-10
  • 100* v Bangladesh, Mirpur, 19-Feb-11
  • 107 v England, Cardiff, 16-Sep-11
  • 112* v England, Delhi, 17-Oct-11
  • 117 v West Indies, Visakhapatnam, 02-Dec-11
  • 133* v Sri Lanka, Hobart, 28-Feb-12
  • 108 v Sri Lanka, Mirpur, 13-Mar-12
  • 183 v Pakistan, Mirpur, 18-Mar-12
  • 106 v Sri Lanka, Hambantota, 21-Jul-12
  • 128* v Sri Lanka, Colombo (RPS), 31-Jul-12
  • 102 v West Indies, Port of Spain, 05-Jul-13
  • 115 v Zimbabwe, Harare, 24-Jul-13
  • 100* v Australia, Jaipur, 16-Oct-13
  • 115* v Australia, Nagpur, 30-Oct-13
  • 123 v New Zealand, Napier, 19-Jan-14
  • 136 v Bangladesh, Fatullah, 26-Feb-14
  • 127 v West Indies, Dharamsala, 17-Oct-14
  • 139* v Sri Lanka, Ranchi, 16-Nov-14
  • 107 v Pakistan, Adelaide, 15-Feb-15
  • 138 v South Africa, Chennai, 22-Oct-15
  • 117 v Australia, Melbourne, 17-Jan-16
  • 106 v Australia, Canberra, 20-Jan-16
  • 154* v New Zealand, Mohali, 23-Oct-16
  • 122 v England, Pune, 15-Jan-17
  • 111* v West Indies, Kingston, 06-Jul-17
  • 131 v Sri Lanka, Colombo (RPS), 31-Aug-17
  • 110* v Sri Lanka, Colombo (RPS), 03-Sep-17
  • 121 v New Zealand, Wankhede, 22-Oct-17
  • 113 v New Zealand, Kanpur, 29-Oct-17
  • 112 v South Africa, Durban, 01-Feb-18
  • 160* v South Africa, Cape Town, 07-Feb-18
  • 129* v South Africa, Centurion, 16-Feb-18
  • 140 v West Indies, Guwahati, 21-Oct-18
  • 157* v West Indies, Visakhapatnam, 24-Oct-18
  • 107 v West Indies, Pune, 27-Oct-18
  • 104 v Australia, Adelaide, 15-Jan-19
  • 116 v Australia, Nagpur, 05-Mar-19
  • 123 v Australia, Ranchi, 08-Mar-19
  • 120 v West Indies, Port of Spain, 11-Aug-19
  • 114* v West Indies, Port of Spain, 14-Aug-19
  • 113 v Bangladesh, Chattogram, 10-Dec-22
  • 113 v Sri Lanka, Guwahati, 10-Jan-23
  • 166* v Sri Lanka, Thiruvananthapuram, 15-Jan-23
  • 122* v Pakistan, Colombo (RPS), 10-Sep-23
  • 103* v Bangladesh, Pune, 19-Oct-23
  • 101* v South Africa, Wankhede, 05-Nov-23

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