Virat has the most centuries in ODI cricket; Broke Sachin's record by scoring 50th century

Virat has the most centuries in ODI cricket; Broke Sachin's record by scoring 50th century

Virat Kohli played an inning of 117 runs off 113 balls. He scored the 50th century of his ODI career. He became the batsman with the most centuries in ODIs. Virat broke Sachin Tendulkar's record of 49 centuries. On the other hand, Shreyas Iyer scored 105 runs on 70 balls. Iyer scored his second consecutive century in the World Cup. Shubman Gill scored 80 runs on 66 balls and captain Rohit Sharma scored 47 runs on 29 balls. Tim Southee took 2 wickets for New Zealand.

Interesting facts and records of India-New Zealand semi-final

• Kohli has become the batsman who has scored the most runs in a World Cup. He broke Sachin Tendulkar's 20-year-old record. Tendulkar had scored 673 runs in the 2003 World Cup.

• Virat Kohli left Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara behind in scoring the most 50+ runs in international cricket. Sangakkara has scored 50+ runs 216 times, while Virat has achieved this feat for the 217th time. Virat has now reached the level of Australian batsman Ricky Ponting (217 times). Sachin Tendulkar is on top in this matter. His is 264.

• Virat Kohli has overtaken Sachin Tendulkar in terms of most number of 50 plus runs scored in a single edition of the World Cup. Virat has scored 50+ runs eight times in this World Cup, while Sachin Tendulkar scored 7 times in the 2003 World Cup and Shakib Al Hasan scored 50+ runs 7 times in the 2019 World Cup.

• 600 sixes have been completed in the current World Cup. Indian batsman Shreyas Iyer hit his 600th six off the ball of Rachin Ravindra.

• Virat Kohli made his best score in the knockout of the ODI World Cup when he took the 36th run. Earlier, Kohli had scored 35 runs on 43 balls against Sri Lanka in the 2011 World Cup final.

• Virat Kohli has become the third top run scorer in ODI cricket. He left Australia's Ricky Ponting behind. Virat left Ponting behind as soon as he took his 28th run in the semi-final against New Zealand. Ponting has 13704 runs in his name in 375 ODIs. Kohli has left this record behind in the 291st match. Only Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara (14234 runs) and India's Sachin Tendulkar (18426 runs) are ahead of Kohli.

• Virat Kohli became the third batsman for India to score more than 600 runs in a World Cup season. Earlier, Sachin Tendulkar had done this in 2003 and Rohit Sharma in 2019.

• Rohit Sharma has become the batsman who has scored the most sixes in a single season of the World Cup. He has hit 28 sixes in the current season. Rohit broke the record of Caribbean batsman Chris Gayle. Gayle had hit 26 sixes in the 2015 World Cup.

• Rohit Sharma hit 4 sixes in this innings. As soon as he hit his third six, he created a world record for the most number of sixes in the ODI World Cup. Rohit has 51 sixes in his name in the World Cup. He broke the record of West Indies' Chris Gayle (49 sixes). This is Rohit's third World Cup. Before this, he has also represented India in 2015 and 2019 ODI World Cup.

• Rohit Sharma became the player who hit the most sixes in the powerplay of the World Cup. He hit 19 sixes in this World Cup powerplay. Rohit left behind the record of former Kiwi captain Brendon McCullum. McCullum had hit 17 sixes during the powerplay in the 2015 World Cup.

• Rohit Sharma is the batsman who has hit the most sixes in the current World Cup. He has hit 28 sixes this season. Rohit left behind Glenn Maxwell's record of 22 sixes in the last match.