Australian opener David Warner has hailed Virat Kohli’s dominant run in international cricket, saying that no present player is going to get anywhere near the India skipper’s tally of 70 international centuries. Warner and Kohli are regarded as the best batsmen of limited-over cricket in the current era. Warner and Kohli share cordial relations off the field despite the intense rivalry on-field in international cricket and the Indian Premier League.
Reacting to a graphics of active cricketers’ century stats on his Instagram story, Warner circled Kohli out and wrote: “Fair to say we ain’t catching Virat Kohli”. Warner is second on the list with 43 hundred and the likes of Chris Gayle, Rohit Sharma, Ross Taylor, Steve Smith, Kane Williamson, Joe Root, Shikhar Dhawan, and Faf Du Plessis follow him.
Notably, Virat Kohli is third on the list of batsmen with the most international hundreds despite not scoring any century since November 2019. The India captain’s century drought in the ODI format stretches even longer as he has not gone past the 3-figure mark since his twin hundreds against West Indies in August 2019.
Kohli last scored in triple digits for India in the Day-Night Test against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens Stadium. Since then, Kohli has failed to convert his 50s into three-figure scores and the wait for his 72nd International ton continues. This has been the longest period that Kohli has endured in his international career where he has gone without scoring a hundred.
