South Africa vs India 2018: 5 reasons to watch the ODI series

#3 Will Virat Kohli score his 1st 100 in South Africa?

Virat Kohli needs to fire for India to win in South Africa

King Kohli is the modern day master of the one-day game and he is well on his way to establishing himself as an all-time great in this format.

The numbers are mind-boggling:

- With an average of 55.74 after having scored 9030 runs in 194 innings across 202 matches at a strike rate of 91.73, Kohli has the highest batting average in the history of one-day cricket for anyone having played more than 40 games.

- With 32 ODI hundreds to his name, Kohli sits 2nd on the list of all-time ODI century makers, only behind Sachin Tendulkar, who leads the list with 49 hundreds.

- Fresh from his twin wins as ICC Cricketer of the Year 2017 and ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year 2017, Kohli enters the series as the #1 ranked ODI batsman (with 876 points) just ahead of his RCB team-mate and arguably the most destructive batsman in world cricket, Mr. 360 - AB de Villiers (872 points). With AB injured and set to miss the first 3 ODIs, Kohli will look to extend his reign at the top of the rankings.

With virtually every innings Kohli plays these days, he either breaks or creates a new record either as a batsman or as a captain or both. For all his exploits, Virat Kohli is yet to score a one-day hundred in South Africa.

He has scored 319 runs at an average of 45.57 across 9 innings in 11 matches in South Africa with the highest score of 87*. It is safe to say that for India to win this series, Kohli will need to lead from the front and if he does score a 100, then he will go on to create another record of having scored a 100 in every country and continent that he has played one-day cricket in.