A look at some amazing records held by Virat Kohli in International Cricket and IPL.
Virat Kohli the best batsman in world cricket at present is widely also regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time in all three formats of the game. He made his international debut against Sri Lanka in 2008.
And within one year he became one of the most important players of the team and he went on to create records in all three formats and in the last decade he ruled everywhere and today he has become one of the greatest batsmen of all time. And here is a list of records held by Virat Kohli.
A list of records held by Virat Kohli in International Cricket and IPL -
Fastest to reach-
Virat Kohli is the fastest batsman to reach 8000 ODI runs (175 inns), 9000 ODI runs (194 inns), 10,000 ODI runs (205 inns) and 11,000 ODI runs (222 inns).
1 - Virat Kohli is the only Indian captain to win a Test series in Australia and the ODI series in South Africa.
4 - Virat Kohli hit four hundred in Indian Premier League 2016 - the only batsman to hit three or more hundreds in a single edition of Indian Premier League.
7 - Number of double hundreds Virat Kohli has scored in Test cricket - the most by any Indian batsman.
9 - Virat Kohli has scored 150 plus score nine times in Test cricket as captain - the most by any captain in Test cricket in the world.
26 - Virat Kohli has scored 26 ODI hundreds while chasing - the most by any batsman in the world.
33 - Virat Kohli has won 33 Tests as captain of Indian team - the most Test wins for an Indian captain.
50+ Avg - Virat Kohli is the only batsman to average 50 or more in all three formats of the game. He averages 53.62 in Tests, 59.33 in ODIs and 50.80 in T20Is as of now.
254* - Virat Kohli's highest score of 254* against South Africa in the Pune Test last year is also the highest individual score by an Indian captain in Test cricket.
558 - Virat Kohli scored 558 runs in the six-match ODI series against South Africa in South Africa back in 2018 - the most runs by a batsman in a bilateral ODI series.
973 - Virat Kohli scored 973 runs in IPL 2016 - the most runs by a batsman in a single edition of IPL.
5142 - Virat Kohli has scored 5142 runs as captain of the Indian team in Test cricket - the most by any Indian captain in this format.
20960 - Virat Kohli scored 20,960 runs across all formats in the last decade (2010-2019) - the only batsman to score 20,000 plus runs across all formats in a single decade.