Hyderabad: India skipper Virat Kohli scored his 42nd ODI century against West Indies in Port of Spain on Sunday. This was Kohli's first ton after 11 innings. The talismanic batsman is just seven centuries behind Sachin Tendulkar who holds the record for the most number of tons in ODI. Domestic cricket's legendary batsmen Wasim Jaffer has expressed that India number three Kohli will score "75-80" hundreds in ODI cricket.
"Normal services resume after a break of 11 innings!!" said Jaffer before predicting Kohli would score 75-80 ODI tons.
Kohli scored 120 off 125 balls as India beat West Indies by 59 runs in the second ODI. In that innings, Kohli surpassed Sourav Ganguly as India's second-highest run-scorer in ODI cricket. Ganguly scored 11,221 runs in 297 innings while Kohli took 229 innings to go past the former skipper.
Soon after Kohli broke his record, Ganguly tweeted: "Virat kohli another master class in one day cricket @imVkohli @BCCI .. what a player."
Thirty-year-old Kohli is now only behind Sachin Tendulkar, who has a whopping 18,426 runs to his name which he accumulated over 452 innings. Kohli is now the seventh-highest run-scorer in ODIs overall behind Jacques Kallis, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara and Tendulkar.
During the course of his knock, Kohli also surpassed Javed Miandad's tally of 1,930 runs to become the highest run-scorer in ODIs against the West Indies.
