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The young Indian cricketer, Virat Kohli yesterday completed his calendar year by blowing out a candle on the cake making him age 36 today…
The young Indian cricketer,
Virat Kohli yesterday completed his calendar year by blowing out a candle on
the cake making him age 36 today…
Digital Desk: Every cricket fan would have hardly dreamt that one day a boy from west Delhi would rule world cricket and everybody would talking about that person. From Uttam Nagar to becoming the captain of the Indian team, till his 36th year, it seems like, a dream! Today is Kohli’s day, he is not only a powerhouse of Indian cricket but also the main danger to opponents.
As a former Indian captain, Virat Kohli has broken numerous records in international cricket. He holds the record for most runs scored in a series in ODIs.He also surpassed Sachin Tendulkar’s record for most ODI hundreds in 2023. As Kohli turned 36 years old today, here are 36 records that earned him the nickname – King of cricket.
1. The Indian skipper made his U-19 debut as captain in the year 2008 when the team won the World Cup in Malaysia; never had there been a looking back from Kohli.
2. Kohli is the most prominent batsman in ODI cricket crossing the 8000, 9000,
10000,11000,12000, and 13000 runs.
3. He also has scored the highest runs in ICC tournaments.
4. Kohli also has the record of the most fifty in the ICC tournament.
5. Another record he has to his name is being the most prolific ‘Man of the Match’ scooper in the ICC tournaments.
6. The following table shows that Kohli is the highest among the active cricketers in terms of ODI hundreds scored.
7. He is the only cricketer to have made 11 hundred in two different calendar years.
8. Kohli has the record of having three hundred hundred plus scores in a row in the ODIs leveling as captain.
9. Kohli scores the maximum number of runs in the knockout match in the ICC.
10. He ranks on top of the list of people with half-centuries in ICC knockouts.
11. Kohli has been representing the Indian team in all the ICC events and he is the only player to have an average touching 50 in all the three ICC events.
12. Kohli also owns the record for the highest runs in a decade.
13. He made a hundred most frequently in a decade.
14. Kohli has more ‘Player of the Match’ awards in the last ten years than any other cricketer.
15. Kohli is one of only two Indians to score tons both at the Test and the ODI level in South Africa and England.
16. He is the only player in the history of cricket to make three double hundred in a single calendar year, of these twice in the form of test cricket.
17. Kohli set the record for making the highest number of single ODI bilateral series runs.
18. In this edition of the T20 World Cup, Kohli batted the best, he scored the most runs.
19. In the T20 World Cup edition he scored the most number of half-centuries.
20. It was Kohli who scored the maximum number of fifty in the Champions Trophy edition.
21. Kohli became the first batsman to make as many as 20,000 international runs in a decade.
22. In 2011, Kohli achieved the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year in the least number of matches than any other Indian by breaking Hashim Amla’s record of 15 innings.
23. Kohli is the first batsman, who made triple centuries both against two teams in the ODI cricket.
24. The captain has been recognized by the ICC’s three premier awards Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, ICC Test Player of the Year, and ICC ODI Player of the Year all in the same year.
25. Ferrari Kohli to be the first captain to score five consecutive half-centuries in the 2019 World Cup.
26. Kohli leads the pack of Test captains with seven double centuries to his tally.
27. He has the distinction of scoring the most 973 runs in that cricket league in a single season of IPL.
28. Kohli was also among the fastest captain to reach the 3,000 run mark in ODIs.
29. Kohli has scored the most number of runs for a captaincy role in the ODI fo mat on West Indian soil.
30. He left a record behind by becoming the first captain to achieve 4,000 test runs in the shortest time.
31. Kohli has a record of scoring most ODI centuries against Australia in India.
32. Kohli leads the list of centurions in the ODI format with 30, 35, and 40 centuries to his name.
33. Kohli is the first Indian player who has scored a century against Pakistan in a World Cup match.
34. The most four centuries in an IPL season (consecutively in 2016) for which equal to Jos Buttler, in 2022.
35. Kohli has scored as many 150+ scores as a captain as any other captain in Test cricket.
36. Kohli has remained among the few players who have scored fours double-century in Test Cricket – in four successive series.
More than just unveiling the excellence of a cricketer, this story is about the milestones that endeavored cricketers all around the globe can look up to.
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