My best knock is ‘49’ against Pakistan in Asia Cup, says Kohli after his 28th hundred

BARBADOS: India’s batting great Virat Kohli is pilling records one after another and the guy seemingly doesn’t care much about these feats. With his latest ton in West Indies, Kohli has surpassed Sachin who had 17 centuries while chasing.

Thursday’s unbeaten, match-winning 111 which gave India a 3-1 win in the five-match ODI series against the West Indies in Kingston, was Kohli’s 28th ODI hundred and 18th while chasing.

The 28-year-old superstar broke the record of Tendulkar who had 17 ODI centuries for India while chasing.

Remarkably, Kohli took only 102 innings to reach the 18th century while chasing. Tendulkar, on the other hand, needed 232 innings for his 17 centuries while chasing in one-day cricket.

In an interesting observation, Kohli recalls his knock of 49 against Pakistan in the Asia Cup T20 2016 as the best one.

Kohli said that sometimes even a smaller knock could be more memorable if it came in difficult batting conditions.

“In hindsight, when you look at those things, you understand the importance of those knocks. Maybe the 49 in Bangladesh against Pakistan (in the Asia Cup T20 2016) was the best I’ve played in the last couple of years. It was only 49, it wasn’t even 50, so I think the quality of the knock, you can think of it only later, when you play in different conditions when you understand how difficult the previous conditions were,” he was quoted as saying by cricinfo.

Pakistan had scored mere 85 in the match and India chased it down in 17.3 overs with a loss of five wickets.

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But Kohli (28 centuries in 189 matches) now stands behind only Tendulkar (49 centuries in 463 matches) and Ricky Ponting (30 centuries in 375 matches) on the list of all-time highest century makers in the history of one-day cricket.

In this West Indies ODI series, India have beaten the host 3-1.