World Records In Single Day! When Virat Kohli Overtook Bradman, Amla Bettered Kohli And De Kock Went Past Amla
This World Record Triangle You Wouldn't Have Seen
World records always fascinate sports fans. And when it comes to a cricket-mad country like India, the numbers and statistics always raise eyebrows. Yesterday, turned out to be a field day for statisticians who unearthed records after records as Virat Kohli was going guns against Bangladesh, scoring his fourth Test double century in consecutive games, thereby breaking a world record previously held by Don Bradman and Rahul Dravid.
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But the world of numbers is crazy. With so much cricket going around you never know which record might get broken. Something like that happened with Kohli as well. On the same day when he created a world record in a different format of the game, one of his other world records, in ODIs, got broken when Hashim Amla became the quickest to record 24 ODI hundreds in terms of innings played. The South African run-machine hit 154 against Sri Lanka in the final ODI setting up a 5-0 series sweep. He took 142 innings to reach the milestone of 24 ODI tonnes, 19 innings quicker than Kohli who held the previous ODI record.
Fewest inns to 24th ODI 100
¡ª Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) February 10, 2017
142 Hashim Amla
161 Virat Kohli
192 ABdeV
219 S Tendulkar
278 R Ponting#SAvSL
But, that was not all.
Amla might be holding the quickest to 24 ODI hundreds record but one of his other ODI feats was overhauled by his countrymen and opening batting partner Quinton de Kock in the same match.
Fewest inns to 12th ODI 100
¡ª Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) February 10, 2017
74 Quinton de Kock
81 Hashim Amla
83 Virat Kohli
90 David Warner#SAvSL
De Kock, who has been in prolific form in ODIs ever since making his debut became the quickest batsman to reach 12 ODI centuries in just 74 innings, 7 innings faster than Amla. Therefore, it made an unusual world record triangle.
It will be intriguing to watch the next couple of years as the numbers battle could only hot up between these three world class cricketers.
