Virat Kohli The Bharat Army
India skipper Virat Kohli scored his debut hundred in England. Getty Images
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Virat Kohli has impinged himself as one of the greatest-ever batsman to have graced this beautiful game of cricket. Kohli first burst on the scene when he led the India U-19 to a World Cup heist in March 2008.

Five months later, an India debut followed when he was called up as a replacement of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar after the latter opted out of the ODI series. Kohli played as an opener in that series but was soon dropped from the set-up. Kohli returned to the side for the 2009 Champions Trophy campaign. A month or so later, he scored his maiden ODI hundred against Sri Lanka to help India scale down a 300+ score.

Since then, Virat Kohli hasn’t taken a backward step and to gauge the extent to which he has dominated the scene in the last 12 years.

Here’s a look at batsmen with most international hundreds since the current Indian captain made his debut:

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Batsmen With The Most International Hundreds Since Virat Kohli's International Debut
AB de Villiers. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

‘Mr 360’ Abraham Benjamin De Villiers makes his way to the list at No.5. Kohli’s international debut in 2008 coincided with the commencement of AB de Villiers peak, and for the better part of the next 10 years before his shock retirement, AB continued to pulverize bowling attacks around the world. And, he did that with absolute disdain.

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During the period, de Villiers scored a total of 14779 runs in 298 international games across formats at an average of 52.59 which includes 38 hundred and 81 half-centuries. While he plundered 16 hundred in 70 Tests during the timeframe, 22 three-figure scores came in 50-over cricket.

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