Former BCCI President and India captain Sourav Ganguly recently opened up on the comparison between batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and swashbuckling batter Virat Kohli.

When asked who is better between the two, Ganguly said: “It is a difficult question to answer.” He further said, “Kohli is a fantastic player. He has played many such innings, 45 hundreds don’t happen like this. He is a special talent. There will be periods when he will not score, but he is a special player.”

Kohli scored his 45th ODI hundred against Sri Lanka in Guwahati on Tuesday, thus inching closer to Sachin Tendulkar's record. Tendulkar scored 49 ODI hundreds in his career and now the former is only four centuries away from equalling the record.

Virat Kohli also scored consecutive hundreds on 11 occasions, having already scored a hundred in the previous match against Bangladesh in December last year. Virat Kohli also scored his 73rd career century, and is the highest-scoring active centurion at this moment.

Although Virat Kohli is still four centuries away from Tendulkar, he has already reached 45 ODI tons in 257 innings. Sachin Tendulkar took 452 innings to reach his 49 ODI hundreds.

The Delhi-born player had a poor first half of 2022 with the bat, but has rejuvenated himself since the T20 World Cup in Australia.

India won the first match in Guwahati by 67 runs.

The home side scored 373/7 after batting first, and the visitors only managed 306 runs in the chase. India captain Rohit Sharma (83 off 67 balls), Shubman Gill (70 off 60 balls) also starred with the bat, while Umran Malik picked up 3 wickets.

Indian team is currently missing a number of key players including Rishabh Pant.

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