Virat Kohli, Run machine, Chase Master, who is celebrating his 32nd birthday today, has received many nicknames for his insatiable desire to score goals. He is widely regarded as the best hitter to play the game ever, and few of his teammates rated him the best of all shapes. His ability to change the game depending on the look, without much confusion, is almost surreal. No wonder it is one of the biggest draws in international cricket.
Let's take a look at the records kept by the captain of India
- Kohli holds the record for the most Test double-centuries by an Indian – 7 so far. He’s also the first Test captain to have recorded six do
- He’s the fastest Indian to have scored 25 centuries in Test cricket.
- In 2019, he became the first hitter to score 20,000 points in a single contract.
- In 2016, it scored 973 points during the IPL, the most in a single edition in T20 League history.
- At the ODI World Cup 2019, he became the first captain to score five half-centuries in a row in the main event. In general, he is the second to do so after his Australian contemporary Steven Smith.
- He is the most successful test captain in Indian cricket history with 33 wins to his name.
- Kohli is the quickest ever to have scored 8,000 runs (175 innings), 9,000 runs (194 innings), 10,000 runs (205 innings), and 11,000 runs (222 innings) in ODI history.
- He’s the first batsman to have scored three straight centuries against two different opponents – against Sri Lanka and West Indies.
- He continues to be the only batsman to have scored over 300 runs in a bilateral series six times.
- He has scored 26 centuries in ODI chases which is the most ever in the format.
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