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David Warner levels Virat Kohli, surpasses Rohit Sharma with stunning BBL century

Aakash Saini

David Warner and Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli [Source: @BBL, @pandora_franky/x]David Warner and Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli [Source: @BBL, @pandora_franky/x]

David Warner tonked his second Big Bash century, and the ninth of his T20 career overall by going berserk against Hobart Hurricanes in match number 21 of the BBL 2025-26 season. 

Opening the innings for Sydney Thunder at the Sydney Showground Stadium, the legendary left-hander clattered 130* runs from just 65 balls with 11 cracking boundaries and nine huge sixes.

The innings also helped David Warner level up with India’s all-format great Virat Kohli to climb higher on the all-time century chart in T20 cricket.

David Warner matches Kohli, Rilee Rossouw with ninth ton

Vintage Australian opener David Warner charted the ninth century of his illustrious T20 career by going ballistic against Hobart Hurricanes in the ongoing BBL 2025-26 season. 

With his latest knock, the cricketer managed to level up with India’s Virat Kohli and South Africa’s Rilee Rossouw in terms of recording the highest number of centuries in the game’s truncated format.

Following David Warner’s Sydney blitz, here is a look at five players with most centuries in T20 cricket.

Most T20 centuries:

Players
T20 centuries
Matches
Chris Gayle 22463
Babar Azam11333
Rilee Rossouw 9391
Virat Kohli9414
David Warner9429

Through the course of his batting mayhem against Hobart Hurricanes, David Warner surpassed the likes of Rohit Sharma, Glenn Maxwell, Jos Buttler, Faf du Plessis, former opening partner Aaron Finch, Michael Klinger and India’s rising star Abhishek Sharma (all eight hundreds each) to become the joint third-highest century-maker in T20 history.

Nonetheless, David Warner’s innings helped Sydney Thunder mount 205-4 in 20 overs in Sydney. In race to qualify for the finals stage, the Warner-led Thunder team need to win each of their remaining matches of the BBL 2025-26 season. At the moment, they are placed at the bottom of the eight-team points table with a solitary win from five matches.