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UPDATED: Nov 21, 2017 21:55 IST
Virat Kohli overcame a bit of an indifferent run in Test cricket to slam his 18th hundred as India battled for safety on the final day of the first match against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens. This was also Kohli's 50th hundred in international cricket.
Besides, Kohli equaled Sunil Gavaskar's record for most hundreds (11) as an India Test captain.
Kohli's hundred allowed India to take a commanding 230-run lead as Sri Lanka were set 231 to win at Eden Gardens. Couple that with performances from Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Shami, the islanders escaped with a draw due to bad light.
Kohli's century was extremely crucial in India's innings considering that wickets were falling cheaply from the other side. It was the captain's knock that put India in pole position.
Just to put Kohli's achievement in perspective, take a look at some figures. Sachin Tendulkar, the only man to score 100 international hundreds, took 376 innings to get to his 50th international ton. Kohli is joint fastest to the landmark with Hashim Amla. Both men had taken 348 innings.
Ricky Ponting played from 1995 to 2012 and finished with 71 hundreds. Kumar Sangakkara, in 15 years, compiled 63 hundreds while Jacques Kallis, who played from 1995 to 2014, racked up 62.
Another Sri Lankan great Mahela Jayawardene, in nearly two decades of international cricket from 1997 to 2015, smashed 54 hundreds.
Amla, Kohli's contemporary, started a full four years before the India captain and has to his credit 54 hundreds in international cricket while the inimitable Brian Lara hammered 53 hundreds in a career spanning 17 years.
All these batsmen are among the greatest to ever play the game and pitting them against each other and drawing comparisons based merely on numbers would be doing serious disservice to cricket.
You could argue the quality of bowling was far superior in the days of Tendulkar, Lara and Ponting. They would say pitches allowed more even contests between bat and ball and comparing those legends with this generation was not fair under any circumstances.
True, there can be no comparisons but pause a little to take a look at Kohli's numbers. There is only one way to describe them: staggering.
No man has scored more hundreds during chases in ODIs. No man, apart from Kohli, has scored double hundreds in four successive series. No man, barring Tendulkar, has more hundreds in ODIs. No man has brought 50 international hundreds in a shorter time span. No man can boast of an average over 50 in all three formats in international cricket. No other captain has scored more international hundreds in a year and only one other India Test captain has scored as many hundreds (11).
Kohli, at 29, is in a league of his own.
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