Most Centuries in ODI Cricket: Virat Kohli Leads With 55

Virat Kohli has the most centuries in ODI cricket, 55, the last of them 139 not out against West Indies on 27 September 2026. Sachin Tendulkar is second with 49 in 452 innings, and Rohit Sharma third with 35. Ricky Ponting (30) and Sanath Jayasuriya (28) complete the top 5.

The gap at the top is the striking number. Kohli reached 55 hundreds in 303 innings, 149 fewer than Tendulkar needed for 49. That is 1 hundred every 5.5 innings for Kohli against 1 every 9.2 for Tendulkar. Ponting's 30 came at 1 in 12.2 innings and Jayasuriya's 28 at 1 in 15.5.

Virat Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar's record of 49 ODI centuries with his 50th, 117 against New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium on 15 November 2023. It came in the 2023 World Cup semi-final, a tournament in which our records show him scoring 765 runs in 11 matches at an average of 95.6.

His 49th, 101 not out against South Africa at Eden Gardens on 5 November 2023, had drawn level 10 days earlier. Since the record he has added 5 more: 100 not out against Pakistan in Dubai in February 2025, 135 and 102 against South Africa in November and December 2025, then 2 in 2026. His full ODI record by season is on his Virat Kohli player page.

Virat Kohli has scored 2 ODI centuries in 2026, 124 against New Zealand at Indore on 18 January and 139 not out against West Indies at Thiruvananthapuram on 27 September. In 11 ODIs this year he has 633 runs at an average of 63.30 and a strike rate of 120.34.

The 139 not out came off 88 balls at the Greenfield International Stadium, a strike rate of 157.95. His 633 runs rank 5th on our ODI runs board for 2026, and his 18 sixes and 60 fours put him 4th and 3rd on those counts among ODI batters. He also has 4 fifties this year, so 6 of his 11 innings have reached 50.

Rohit Sharma has 35 ODI centuries, third on the all-time list, after 138 against England at Lord's on 19 July 2026 and 101 against West Indies at Guwahati on 30 September 2026. Both came this year, in 14 ODIs bringing 627 runs at 44.79 and a strike rate of 102.62.

Rohit's 28 sixes in 2026 are the most among the top 10 run-scorers on our board. He passed Ricky Ponting's 30 hundreds with his 31st, against Afghanistan in October 2023, and needs 20 more to reach Kohli's current 55. His innings-by-innings record is on his Rohit Sharma ODI stats page.

Shubman Gill, Ben Duckett and Pavan Rathnayake share the most ODI hundreds in 2026 with 3 each, as of 7 November. Shubman Gill also leads the runs list with 932 at 93.20, ahead of Ben Duckett on 737 and Pavan Rathnayake on 692.

India have 4 of the 11 batters with 2 or more ODI hundreds this year: Gill, Kohli, Rohit and KL Rahul, whose 2 hundreds have come in 10 innings with no other fifty. England have 2 in Duckett and Harry Brook, whose strike rate of 125.15 is the fastest of the 11 bar Rahul's 125.71. Gill's scoring pattern is broken down in our analysis of his 932 ODI runs.

Rohit Sharma, on 35, is the nearest active player to Kohli's 55 ODI centuries in the all-time top 5, and both are in India's squad. Gill, with 3 hundreds in 14 ODIs this year, has the best 2026 average of 93.20 among the 3 leaders.

For Rohit, 20 more hundreds at his 2026 rate of 2 a year is beyond any normal career length. The next chance for either to add to their totals is the New Zealand v India ODI on 13 November, with New Zealand and Daryl Mitchell, who has 2 hundreds in 8 ODIs this year, on the other side. Every result updates our ODI runs leaders and the One Day Internationals hub.

All-time totals cover men's ODIs and come from the records list read on 12 November 2026. That list was last updated on 27 September and showed Rohit on 34, so we added his 101 against West Indies on 30 September from his list of international centuries. The 2026 figures cover ODIs on our ODI 2026 leaders board, which also lists West Indies batter Shai Hope and Afghanistan's Sediqullah Atal on 2 hundreds each.