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.
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:
| Player | Teams | Mat | Inns | Runs | HS | Ave | 100s | 50s |
| SR Tendulkar | India | 463 | 452 | 18426 | 200* | 44.83 | 49 | 96 |
| RT Ponting | Australia / World XI | 375 | 365 | 13704 | 164 | 42.03 | 30 | 82 |
| V Kohli | India | 189 | 181 | 8257 | 183 | 54.68 | 28 | 43 |
| ST Jayasuriya | Sri Lanka / Asia XI | 445 | 433 | 13430 | 189 | 32.36 | 28 | 68 |
| HM Amla | South Africa | 156 | 153 | 7186 | 159 | 50.25 | 25 | 33 |
| KC Sangakkara | Sri Lanka / Asia XI / World XI | 404 | 380 | 14234 | 169 | 41.98 | 25 | 93 |
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:
| Player | Teams | 100s | Matches played for 28th ODI century | Innings played for 28th ODI century |
| V Kohli | India | 28 | 189 | 181 |
| SR Tendulkar | India | 49 | 266 | 259 |
| RT Ponting | Australia / World XI | 30 | 323 | 314 |
| ST Jayasuriya | Sri Lanka / Asia XI | 28 | 428 | 416 |
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)
| Player | Team | Mat | Inns | Runs | HS | 100s | 50s | Inns/100 |
| HM Amla | South Africa | 156 | 153 | 7186 | 159 | 25 | 33 | 6.12 |
| V Kohli | India | 189 | 181 | 8257 | 183 | 28 | 43 | 6.46 |
| Q de Kock | South Africa | 85 | 85 | 3519 | 178 | 12 | 14 | 7.08 |
| DA Warner | Australia | 96 | 94 | 4025 | 179 | 13 | 16 | 7.23 |
| S Dhawan | India | 86 | 85 | 3589 | 137 | 10 | 21 | 8.5 |
(Stats as on July 7, 2017)
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