Stats: Virat Kohli becomes the fastest to score 28 ODI centuries

Among the 4 players who have scored 28 ODI tons including Kohli, no one has taken as fewer innings to hit their 28th ODI century.

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India’s Captain Virat Kohli plays a shot. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

After a couple of failures in the previous two games, Virat Kohli turned up strong in the 5th ODI at Kingston and played a captain’s knock with an unbeaten century in the run-chase against the home side to complete a series win. With this hundred, Kohli became only the 4th batsman in ODI history to score 28 centuries.

Till date, only 6 players have scored 25 and more centuries in ODI cricket out of those only Virat and Hashim Amla (25) are the active players. Sachin Tendulkar is firmly placed at the top with 49 ODI centuries and Virat needs 5-6 good years in this format to beat Tendulkar and become the first player ever to smash 50 ODI tons.

Most centuries in ODI cricket:

PlayerTeamsMatInnsRunsHSAve100s50s
SR TendulkarIndia46345218426200*44.834996
RT PontingAustralia / World XI3753651370416442.033082
V KohliIndia189181825718354.682843
ST JayasuriyaSri Lanka / Asia XI4454331343018932.362868
HM AmlaSouth Africa156153718615950.252533
KC SangakkaraSri Lanka / Asia XI / World XI4043801423416941.982593

 

Among the 4 players who have scored 28 ODI hundreds including Kohli, no one got there faster than Kohli in terms of innings as he to hit their 28th ODI century in 181 innings. Sachin needed 259 while other two took over 310 ODI innings to score hundred number 28.

Fastest to 28th ODI century in terms of innings:

PlayerTeams100sMatches played for 28th ODI centuryInnings played for 28th ODI century
V KohliIndia28189181
SR TendulkarIndia49266259
RT PontingAustralia / World XI30323314
ST JayasuriyaSri Lanka / Asia XI28428416

 

Virat Kohli now has scored 28 centuries having played 181 ODI innings and thus he has taken 6.46 innings per hundred. Only Hashim Amla has a better ratio as he scored 25 ODI centuries in just 153 innings which means 6.12 innings per hundred. Among the players with 10 or more centuries in this format, no one else has taken less than 7 innings at an average for every hundred.

Players with best innings/hundred ratio in ODI cricket: (Min: 10 centuries)

PlayerTeamMatInnsRunsHS100s50sInns/100
HM AmlaSouth Africa156153718615925336.12
V KohliIndia189181825718328436.46
Q de KockSouth Africa8585351917812147.08
DA WarnerAustralia9694402517913167.23
S DhawanIndia8685358913710218.5

(Stats as on July 7, 2017)

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