Virat Kohli beacme 2nd fastest player to score 10 centuries for India!!

Virat Kohli has been in phenomenal form in the Border-Gavaskar Test series

Virat Kohli is having a great run in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia. He began the Test series with 1,855 runs to his name in 51 innings at an average of 39.46 with six centuries. The series is yet to be completed, and he already has got over 600 runs with four centuries. He took his tally to 10 centuries in his 58th innings at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). 

58 innings to reach 10 centuries is the second lowest number of innings by an Indian to get to the mark of 10 Test hundreds. The only one who achieved the feat in fewer innings than Kohli was Virender Sehwag. Sehwag scored his tenth Test century in his 55th Test innings against Pakistan in 2005. Kohli is, overall, the 13th Indian player to score 10 or more Test centuries. The first Indian to do so was Polly Umrigar in 1961. 

The table below lists the number of innings and matches played by Indians to score 10 centuries in Test cricket.

Fewest innings to score 10 Test 100s for India

Batsman	Innings	Matches
Virender Sehwag	55	34
Mohammad Azharuddin	58	39
Virat Kohli	58	33
Sachin Tendulkar	59	41
Sunil Gavaskar	61	32
Polly Umrigar	78	50
Mohinder Amarnath	91	54
Rahul Dravid	96	56
Gundappa Viswanath	103	58
Ravi Shastri	109	72
Sourav Ganguly	113	68
VVS Laxman	121	76
Dilip Vengsarkar	135	83

The 26-year-old has got to his 10th century in his 33rd Test match. The only Indian to get there in lesser number of matches is Sunil Gavaskar, who got to it in his 32nd Test match.Kohli is the joint second quickest to 10 Test centuries along with Mohammad Azharuddin. The maximum number of innings played by any Indian to score 10 Test centuries is 135 by Dilip Vengsarkar. Sachin Tendulkar took 59 innings and the next quickest is Sunil Gavaskar in 61 innings.