Former skipper Virat Kohli who calls Sachin Tendulkar his idol is on course to smash all major records that Master Blaster made in his 2 decade career
Even though Virat missed 2 chances to equal Sachin's record of 49 100s in this WC, overall he has been way quicker than 'God of cricket' himself
While Virat got to his 48th ton in his 285th game, Sachin's 49th hundred came in his 462nd ODI
Interestingly, Virat's 40 out of 48 hundreds have come in a winning cause. For Sachin, the number's much lower at 33
No one comes even remotely close to Kohli's numbers while chasing, not even God himself. VK has 27 hundreds while chasing, Sachin has 17
Kohli's insane record while chasing: In 163 games, he is averaging 65 with SR of 93.64. Sachin has an avg of 42 and SR of 88 in 242 matches
VK who has played 288 ODIs for now has better SR (93) & avg (58) than Sachin. The retired player had avg of 44 with SR at 86 in 463 ODIs
Since 1992, Sachin has played in 6 WCs & has 6 100s, Kohli is currently playing his 3rd & has 3 100s. 4th might be on the way as 4 games remain
In World Cup match against SL, Kohli got to 1000 ODI runs for 2023. He breached the mark in a year for 8th time in his career, going past Sachin's 7
Kohli breached 13,000-run mark in 267 innings, becoming the quickest to the milestone. Sachin Tendulkar took 321 innings to reach that landmark
VK is ahead of Sachin in away games. Ex-captain has 5336 runs in away games from 2008-23 in 118 ODIs & Sachin has 5065 from 1989-2012 in 152 games.