Virat Kohli’s 71st international century; scored 122*

Virat Kohli’s 71st international century: Virat Kohli hit his first T20I century for India against Afghanistan in an Asia Cup 2022 match, breaking numerous records with his 71st international tonne.

Virat Kohli’s 71st international century: Virat Kohli’s maiden T20I tonne for India in an Asia Cup 2022 Super Four match against Afghanistan in Dubai ended a 1019-day drought for his 71st international century.

Throughout his innings, Kohli broke numerous records. In the absence of Indian captain Rohit Sharma, Kohli opened the innings also was caught on 28 by Afghanistan’s Ibrahim Zadran. With 276 runs in five innings, he is currently the Asia Cup’s leading scorer.

The 33-year-old had previously scored an international century against Bangladesh in a pink-ball Test on November 23, 2019, in Kolkata.

Here’s a look at everything the former India captain accomplished during his unbeaten 122-ball knock.

• Virat Kohli surpassed Rohit Sharma’s 118 against Sri Lanka as the highest individual T20I score by an Indian.
• Kohli became only the fourth Indian to score a century across all formats (after Suresh Raina, Rohit and KL Rahul).
• He joins Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Suresh Raina, Suryakumar Yadav, also Deepak Hooda as the sixth Indian to score a T20I century.
• Kohli matched Ricky Ponting’s record of 71 international hundreds.
• He is now has the same number of T20 centuries as Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul.
• Kohli became the second Indian after Rohit Sharma to hit 100 T20I sixes and the tenth batter overall.
• Kohli’s 122* is the highest T20I score in any UAE match.
• Kohli became the second man after Rohit Sharma reached 3500 runs in T20Is.
• Kohli became the seventh batter to cross 24,000 international runs. He is the third Indian to do so, following Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.
• Kohli is the fastest to 24,000 international runs in 522 innings, surpassing Tendulkar, who did so in 540 innings.
• He is the first batter in the history of Men’s Asia Cup T20s to score a century.
• Kohli has 13 ‘Man of the Match’ awards in T20Is, tied with Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi.
• He surpassed Rohit Sharma as India’s leading run-scorer in Asia Cup history, with 1042 runs.