In the match played between India and Afghanistan at the Dubai International Stadium today, in the absence of captain Rohit Sharma, former India captain Virat Kohli scored his 71st century after a long time.

During the scintillating innings of 122 runs from Virat Kohli's bat, the spectators got to see many visible shots on the field. Virat Kohli faced 61 balls during his innings of 122 runs and hit 12 fours and 6 sixes.

During this Virat Kohli's batting average was 200. Thanks to Virat Kohli (122) and captain KL Rahul (62), Team India has set a target of 213 runs to win against Afghanistan in the match.

First century in T20 International

Team India's wicket batsman Virat Kohli played the highest innings of 122 runs for India in T20 against Afghanistan. Earlier, Virat Kohli could not score a single century in T20. Virat Kohli scored 122 runs in 61 balls with 12 fours and 6 sixes while scoring a century against Afghanistan.

Before this, the last century was seen with Virat's bat in November 2019

Team India's former batsman Virat Kohli has scored the first century of the T20 format against Afghanistan today. Before this, Virat Kohli was struggling to score a century for a long time. Before this century, Virat Kohli made his last international century against Bangladesh on 23 November in the year 2019

Tremendous form

Even though Team India has failed to reach the final of the Asia Cup 2022. But during this time Virat Kohli's bat has spoken fiercely. He has shown a great game against teams like Pakistan and Hong Kong in the Asia Cup 2022.

Now he has ended the century drought after a long wait of 83 innings by playing an innings of 122 against Afghanistan. Virat Kohli has so far scored a total of 71 centuries in all three formats of international cricket.

Only Sachin Tendulkar is ahead of Virat in terms of scoring overall centuries

Let us tell you that the record of scoring the most centuries in international cricket is in the name of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin Tendulkar has scored a total of 100 centuries in international cricket. After him, Team India's batsman Virat Kohli comes up to the number of 71 centuries. He played a total of 522 innings to score 71 centuries.

In such a situation, in the case of scoring centuries, Ricky Ponting, who was ranked number two in terms of scoring 71 centuries, played 668 innings to score the same number of centuries. They have now been left behind. After Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara is at number four with 63 centuries in 666 innings. While Jacques Kallis is in fifth place with 62 centuries in terms of scoring the most centuries. Jacques Kallis has scored 62 centuries in 617 innings.