The Oddsworth Smell Test
Claim
“Given Sachin Tendulkar's 200 Tests and 463 ODIs, Virat Kohli would have 110 or more international hundreds”
Smells right
Data At his career rates, Kohli would have 130 Test and ODI hundreds from Tendulkar’s 200 Tests and 463 ODIs, 20 clear of 110 and 30 more than Tendulkar made.
Give Virat Kohli the 200 Tests and 463 ODIs Sachin Tendulkar played, keep him scoring hundreds as often as he has in each format, and he gets to 130. That clears the 110 in the claim with room to spare, and it is 30 more than the 100 Tendulkar made in those two formats.
Kohli stands on 85 Test and ODI hundreds, so the extra matches would have to bring another 45. The sum assumes he keeps his career rate through every one of those extra appearances.
Where the hundreds come from
Kohli made 24.4 hundreds per 100 men’s Tests between 2011 and January 2025, and 17.6 per 100 men’s ODIs from August 2008 to September 2026.
The two formats tell different stories. Over 200 Tests his rate gives 49 hundreds, just short of Tendulkar’s 51, so the Test side of the sum is roughly level. The whole gap comes from the 50-over game: over 463 ODIs Kohli’s rate gives 82 hundreds against Tendulkar’s 49, and that is what carries him past 110.