‘Hungry’ Kohli can go past Tendulkar: Ricky Ponting

TIL Desk Sports/ Surpassing Sachin Tendulkar’s feat of 100 international centuries is “possible” for Virat Kohli, Australian great Ricky Ponting has said looking at the Indian superstar’s new-found hunger for runs. Kohli recently ended a wait of 1,020 days for his 71st international hundred when he smashed 122 not out off 61 balls against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup earlier this month.

“Look, I’ll never say never with Virat, because you know once he gets on a bit of a roll, you know how hungry he is and how keen for success he is. I’ll never say never that’s for sure,” the two-time Aussie World Cup winning skipper said.

In the course of his century, Kohli equalled Ponting’s feat of 71 tons. Kohli has now only one name on the list of most centuries above him — Tendulkar. Thirty international centuries may be a lot, but Ponting said: “I still think he has got a number of years ahead of him, but I guess to still be 30 international hundreds behind, that’s a lot.