who is king of cricket? no one other then virat kohli. Virat Kohli holds a number of records. With each game, it seems like the Delhte is raising the bar for batsmen.
Test records
Kohli has scored more runs than any other Indian batsman in a calendar year in 2012, 2015, and 2016.
He is the first batsman in history to get two hundred runs in four straight test matches. He did it against Bangladesh, West Indies, England, and New Zealand.
In a three-match test series, Kohli’s 610 runs against Sri Lanka in 2017 were the most by an Indian player.
Records by ODI
With 909 points, Kohli has the most points of any Indian batsman in history. In the ICC rankings, he is only 26 points behind Vivian Richards, who had 935 points.
Six times in a bilateral series, Kohli has scored more than 300 runs. None of the other players have done it more than four times.
The record for the fastest ODI century by an Indian is also held by the run machine. In 2013, against Australia in Jaipur, he did it in just 52 balls.
Kohli is the first Indian player to reach 1000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 10000, and 11000 runs in one-day internationals (ODIs). He reached 8000 and 9000 runs faster than anyone else in the world. He reached the mark in 194 innings. South Africa’s AB De Villiers is ahead of Kohli, who needed 11 more innings to reach the same point.
He is the fastest Indian to reach 25, 30, 35, and 40 hundreds, and he is also the fastest person in the world to reach 30 and 35 hundreds. Bowlers haven’t been able to stop him from scoring runs.
Kohli is the player who has scored the most runs in a bilateral series. He got 558 runs in the ODI series against South Africa that just ended in South Africa.
Since 2010, with the exception of 2015, Kohli has scored the most runs by an Indian batsman in a calendar year. In 2011 and 2017, he had the most runs of any player in those years, with 1381 and 1460 runs, respectively.
Virat is at his best when he is being chased. He is the only batsman to have reached 23 centuries while chasing. He did it in just 102 innings, while Tendulkar took 232 innings to get 17 centuries.
T20 records
Kohli has scored 24 50s in T20 cricket. He is second only to Rohit Sharma on his team in terms of the most 50s scored in T20 cricket.
Kohli was the one who got to 1000 T20 international runs the fastest. He reached the mark in just 27 innings, while Aaron Finch needed 29 innings to do the same.
He is the first batsman in T20 internationals to score more than 600 runs in a calendar year. In 2016, he did it with an incredible average of 106.83 and a strike rate of 140.26, including seven fifties.
Virat Kohli broke the world record for the most T20Is he played without getting a single run. In his 52nd T20 international, which was his 47th at-bat, he got his first out without getting a hit.
Records of Captaincy
People thought they had seen Kohli at his best, but then he did something even better. The fact that he is captain seems to have made his stats even better, and Kohli has changed the whole way the Indian team looks at things.
Test records
Kohli is known for being the captain who has won the most test series in a row. Between 2015 and 2017, Kohli won nine straight series, which was the same number that Ricky Ponting won from 2005 to 2008.
Kohli was the first cricketer in the world to score three centuries in his first three innings as test captain. This was a great start to his time as captain. He did this against Australia when, after scoring two hundreds in the Adelaide Test, he scored 140 runs in the Sydney Test, which was a very good score.
As India’s Test captain, the “run machine” has scored more than 3500 runs. He passed MS Dhoni and Sunil Gavaskar to become the test captain with the most runs.
Under Kohli, India went 18 games without losing, which was longer than their previous record of 17 games. The streak started against Sri Lanka in 2015 and ended against Australia in 2017.
Kohli has already hit six double centuries, which is the most ever for a test captain. He’s also the fastest Indian captain to reach 19 test centuries.
Records by ODI
Kohli has led his team to 21 centuries in ODIs. It is the Indian captain with the most points.
Virat Kohli is the first captain to hit six ODI hundreds in one year.
Kohli is also the captain who reached 1000 runs the fastest. He beat the record of 18 innings set by AB De Villiers.
he also score fastest century in ODI by Indian.
Kohli is thought to be the best batsman of his time. But he still has a long way to go because he needs to help his team win more and more trophies, and the team is much more important than any one player.
