Virat Kohli hits 39th ODI century, sets several records on special 'January 15'

It seems Virat Kohli loves Janaury 15. It is the third straight year when he has scored a century on this date. In 2017, he hit first ODI century of year on January 15. In 2018, India were playing Tests and Kohli hit another century on Janaury 15. Now he has added his first century of this year on this date. (Image: Twitter @BCCI)

This was Virat Kohli's 64th international century. He is now third in list of most international centuries after Sachin Tendulkar (100) and Ricky Ponting (71). With Tuesday's century, he went past Kumar Sangakkara (63). (Image: Reuters)

Virat Kohli became the player with second most centuries in overseas conditions. He now has 22 centuries outside India behind Sachin's 29. He went past Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara (21) with this century. (Image: Twitter @BCCI)

During the innings, Virat Kohli became the 11th highest run-scorer in ODI cricket history. He went past Tilakratne Dilashan of Sri Lanka who has 10,290 runs. While Dilshan scored his runs in 303 innings, Virat took only 210 innings to reach there. Virat is expected to break into the top ten soon as there is no active batsman in that list. Brain Lara with 10405 runs is at No. 10 in the list. (Image: AFP)

Virat no has most centuries in ODI cricket since 2017. He went past Rohit Sharma to score his 13th century since 2017. Rohit has scored 12 hundred since 2017 in 42 innings the same as Kohli. 

Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma added 54 runs for the second wicket. It means they have 4117 runs together in ODIs. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid also added 4117 runs together. However, Kohli and Rohit have done it in 30 fewer innings than Tendulkar and Dravid.

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