Sachin Tendulkar-Virat Kohli
File photos of Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli

Team India captain Virat Kohli on Tuesday will get an opportunity to equal Sachin Tendulkar’s record if he succeeds in scoring a ton.

Tendulkar, the living God of Indian Cricket holds the record of the highest number of ODI hundreds on home soil. He holds the record with 20 centuries on home soil.

While Team India takes on Australia at Mumbai’s Wankhede on Tuesday, if Kohli scores a century, he would come at par Sachin Tendulkar’s record.

At present, Kohli looks confident to achieve it, with 19 centuries in his bag at home.

The Australians are going to play a three-match ODI series against India.

During the last few years, Kohli is on a record-breaking spree.

He became the fastest to reach 11,000 international runs as skipper as India played a three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka.

On January 7, Virat reached another milestone in T20I as he completed 1,000 runs as captain in the shortest format of the game against Sri Lanka at Indore.

He is the only batsman in the world to average more than 50 in all three formats. And, he has scored the most number of double tons in Tests as captain

He was awarded Padma Shri in 2017, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2018, and ICC Cricketer of the Year in 2017 and 2018.

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