Virat Kohli joins elite club with 100th centuries in professional cricket

PERTH: Indian cricket legend Virat Kohli has completed the impressive milestone of 100 centuries in professional cricket.

He achieved this feat by scoring a century in the Perth Test. Kohli is now the only active cricketer and the 37th player overall to reach this historic milestone.

Kohli played an unbeaten innings of 100 runs off 143 balls in the third innings of the Perth Test against Australia. This was his 100th century in professional cricket, of which 81 centuries were scored in international cricket.

Kohli’s record includes 37 first-class centuries, 54 List A centuries and 9 T20 centuries.

Kohli is the 37th player in the world to score 100 centuries in professional cricket. He is the only active cricketer currently with this achievement. The last player to score 100 centuries was Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara in 2020.

England’s Jack Hobbs leads the list with 199 centuries. Pakistan’s Zaheer Abbas is the only Pakistani cricketer to achieve this feat, having scored 127 centuries in professional cricket.

Before Kohli, the only Indian to make it to the list was Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 142 professional centuries. It is worth noting that the first Test match between Australia and India is being played in Perth, in which Australia needs 522 runs to win. Today is the third day of the match.