{"id":4238,"date":"2023-11-16T02:15:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T02:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2023-11-16T02:15:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T02:15:47","slug":"virat-kohli-breaks-sachin-tendulkars-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/virat-kohli-breaks-sachin-tendulkars-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s records of most runs and most 50-plus scores in a World Cup; most tons in ODIs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Virat Kohli overtakes Sachin Tendulkar’s records of the most ODI centuries as he scores a ton against New Zealand at the 2023 ICC World Cup semi-final match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Wednesday (November 15). In the same innings, he also set the record for the most runs and the most 50-plus scores in a World Cup.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Virat Kohli 50th ODI Century,\u00a0ICC World Cup 2023:\u00a0<\/strong>Ace India batsman\u00a0Virat Kohli scripted new chapters in the history books of world cricket as he became the first batsman to score 50 ODI centuries when he cracked a ton against New Zealand in the semi-final match of the World Cup in Mumbai on Wendesday (November 15, 2023). He\u00a0 overtook Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 49 ODI centuries in Onedayers. In the same innings, Kohli also improved on Sachin’s records\u00a0of the most runs and the most 50-plus scores in a single edition of the World Cup. Playing in the first\u00a0semi-final<\/a>\u00a0of the 2023 World Cup on Wednesday, Kohli scored his eighth 50-plus score, overtaking Tendulkar and Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan. While Tendulkar scored seven 50-plus scores at the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, Shakib\u00a0joined the Indian master with equal number of 50-plus scores at the 2019 World Cup in England.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from that, Kohli also broke Tendulkar’s 20-year record, overtaking him as the batsman with the most runs in a World Cup. Tendulkar had scored 673 runs in 11 innings at the 2003 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At present, Virat Kohli has the same number of centuries in ODIs as Tendulkar at 49. However, with Kohli batting at 81 runs at the time of writing this report, he appears within the reach of breaking this record too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n