Jaffer sees Kohli breaking Sachin's ODI record, scoring 75-80 tons.
Former
India batsmen Wasim Jaffer backed skipper Virat
Kohli to score "75-80" hundreds in ODI cricket.
Kohli
scored his first century in 11 innings on Sunday in India's second
ODI against West Indies and that took his career tally to 42. The
record for most centuries in ODI cricket lies with Sachin Tendulkar
who scored 49.
"Normal
services resumes after a break of 11 innings!!" said Jaffer
before predicting Kohli would score 75-80 ODI tons.
Kohli
scored 120 off 125 balls as India beat West Indies by 59 runs in the
second ODI. In that innings, Kohli surpassed Sourav Ganguly as
India's second highest run scorer in ODI cricket.
Ganguly
scored 11,221 runs in 297 innings while Kohli took 229 innings to go
past the former skipper.
Soon
after Kohli broke his record, Ganguly tweeted: "Virat kohli
another master class in one day cricket @imVkohli @BCCI .. what a
player."
Thirty-year-old
Kohli is now only behind Sachin
Tendulkar, who has a whopping 18,426 runs to his name which he
accumulated over 452 innings.
Kohli
is now the seventh highest run scorer in ODIs overall behind Jacques
Kallis, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ricky
Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara and Tendulkar.
During
the course of his knock, Kohli also surpassed Javed Miandad's tally
of 1,930 runs to become the highest run-scorer in ODIs against the
West Indies.
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