Former Indian head coach Ravi Shastri has backed Virat Kohli to break Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 100 international centuries. Shastri has opined that Kohli has the mental and physical strength to achieve the landmark.
“Who would have thought when Sachin Tendulkar got 100 hundreds that anyone would come close? And, he’s got 80; 80 international hundreds, 50 of them in the one-day game, which makes him the highest. Unreal,” Shastri said during the ICC Review.
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The former Team India coach further praised the 35-year-old and said that a player of Virat Kohli’s calibre can achieve anything.
“Nothing’s impossible because such players, when they start reeling off hundreds, then they score them pretty quickly. His next 10 innings, you might see another five hundreds. You have three formats of the game, and he’s part of all those formats. To think that he still has three or four years of cricket ahead of him is simply mind-boggling,” Shastri added.
Shastri said that Kohli has been more calm and composed in this edition of World Cup which has helped him to be the best in the tournament.
“I think his composure, his body language, his calmness at the crease (in this WC). I have seen him come out in previous World Cups where he’s like a cat on a hot tin roof. He wanted to get on with it straight away. None of that sort here. He’s taken his time, marked his guard, soaked the pressure, given himself time, and understood his role of batting deep in the innings. He’s just been wonderful,” he further added.
Notably, Virat Kohli has amassed 80 centuries in the international cricket so far. He has 50 ODIs, 29 Tests and 1 T20I century. So far, Kohli has played 517 matches in the international arena and it remains to be seen if King Kohli can surpass the Master Sachin in the overall centuries record as well.
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