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When Did Virat Kohli Score His Last International Century?

Virat Kohli is currently struggling for form. The Indian Captain is also enduring a century drought, the span of which is surprisingly long for a player of Virat’s stature. Every game that Team India plays, there is a short sub-plot that revolves around Virat’s quest for his next International century. In this article, we answer the question ‘When Did Virat Kohli Score His Last International Century?’

The player currently stands at 70 centuries

Virat Kohli clocked hundreds quickly at the peak of his career. In fact, currently, he is the third on the list when it comes to highest International centuries by a player. While Virat has 70, the next on the list is Ricky Ponting with 71-century knocks. Sachin Tendulkar leads the chart with hundred centuries.

The fans have been waiting for the day Virat scores his next century. Every time he gets out, statisticians bring out the number of days since his last century. The player, too, needs one to break the shackles, especially when his contemporaries are doing extremely well.

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‘When Did Virat Kohli Score His Last International Century?’

Precisely, Virat Kohli last scored a century in the Test match that started on 22nd November 2019 against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens. It was a day-night Test game that India won convincingly after the Bangladeshi’s were bowled out for 106 in the first innings. Virat scored 136 runs in that game. While that was his last Test century, Virat’s last ODI century was on 14th August 2019 against West Indies at Port of Spain. He scored 114 runs in his last ODI century-knock.

Since then, the RCB skipper is yet to breach the century mark. His highest scores in Test, ODI and T20I cricket since then have been 74, 89 and 94* respectively. Virat’s conversion rate was one of the most impressive aspects of his batting. This has been missing for the last two years.

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