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Former Indian captain and star batsman Virat Kohli is celebrating his 36th birthday today. Kohli has achieved a lot in his career so far and is counted among the greatest batsmen in the world. Kohli became the batsman to score a half-century in the 50-over format during the ODI World Cup last year. Kohli retired from T20 Internationals after winning T20 World Cup titles in the US and West Indies this year, but still plays in ODIs and Tests. On the occasion of Kohli's birthday, let us know some of his special records.
King Kohli is not in form right now
Virat Kohli is a name in world cricket history who has fans in every corner of the world. The recent form of King Kohli, known as Run Machine, is not going well. Virat Kohli's performance in the Test series against New Zealand was very poor. Even the fans cannot believe Kohli's poor performance. Kohli could score only 93 runs in three test matches against the Kiwi team. Now Team India is going on Australia tour.
Fastest 13 thousand runs in ODI
Kohli has the record of scoring the fastest 13000 runs in ODI. He achieved this feat on 10 September 2023 in the 278th ODI match against Pakistan. In this matter, Kohli is ahead of former Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar who had achieved this feat in 321 ODI matches.
Scored most centuries in ODI
Kohli holds the record for scoring most centuries in ODI format. Kohli has so far scored 13906 runs in 295 matches in this format. Kohli has the record of scoring 50 centuries in ODIs. In this matter also, he left behind Sachin who had scored 49 centuries in ODI in his career.
Record of most half centuries in T20
Even though Kohli has said goodbye to International T20, he still holds the record of scoring most half-centuries in this format. In this matter, he is on top of former Pakistan captain Babar Azam. Kohli has scored 39 half-centuries in T20 International.
Scored a century in the first match of ODI World Cup
Virat Kohli made his debut in the World Cup in 2011. Kohli scored a century in the match against Bangladesh. He became the first Indian to score a century on his World Cup debut. Along with this, Kohli has also made the record of scoring most centuries against any one team in ODI. He has scored 10 centuries against Sri Lanka in this format.
How was your record as captain?
Kohli may not have won any ICC trophy as a captain, but he is at eighth position in terms of playing most number of matches as a captain. Kohli has captained the Indian team in a total of 213 matches including Test, ODI and T20.
36 exploits of Virat Kohli
Let's take a look at those 36 exploits of Virat Kohli that justify his title of King of Cricket.
- Virat Kohli is the fastest batsman to score 8000, 9000, 10000, 11000, 12000 and 13000 runs in ODIs.
- The record of scoring most runs in ICC events is in the name of Virat Kohli.
- Virat Kohli is also at number 1 in terms of scoring most half-centuries in ICC events.
- Kohli holds the record for winning the most Man of the Match awards in ICC events.
- Among the active cricketers in the world, Virat Kohli is the batsman who has scored the most centuries in ODIs.
- Virat Kohli is the only cricketer to score 11 centuries each twice in a calendar year.
- Virat is the only captain to score 3 consecutive centuries in ODI.
- Virat holds the record of scoring most runs in ICC Knockout.
- Kohli holds the record for most half-centuries in ICC Knock Eight.
- Virat is the only player to have an average of more than 50 in all three ICC events.
- The record of scoring most runs in a decade is in the name of Virat Kohli.
- Kohli is the batsman who has scored the most centuries in a decade.
- Virat holds the record for most Player of the Match awards in a decade.
- Virat is one of only two Indians to have scored centuries in both Tests and ODIs across all countries.
- Virat Kohli holds the record of scoring 3 double centuries in Tests twice in a calendar year.
- The record of scoring most runs in bilateral ODI series is in the name of Virat Kohli.
- Virat is the highest run-scorer in this edition of the T20 World Cup.
- Virat is the batsman who has scored the most half-centuries in this edition of the T20 World Cup.
- Virat Kohli is the batsman with the most half-centuries in this edition of the Champions Trophy.
- Virat Kohli is the first batsman to score 20000 international runs in a decade.
- Virat is the fastest batsman to score 1000 ODI runs in a calendar year. By doing this in the year 2011, he broke Hashim Amla's record of 15 innings.
- Virat is the first batsman to score 3 consecutive ODI centuries against two teams.
- He is the first player to win all three major ICC awards – Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, Test Player of the Year and ODI Player of the Year – in the same year.
- In the 2019 World Cup, he became the first captain to score 5 consecutive half-centuries.
- Virat Kohli has scored maximum 7 double centuries as a Test captain.
- Virat Kohli also has the record of scoring 973 runs in one season of IPL.
- Virat Kohli is the fastest player to score 3000 runs in ODI as a captain.
- Virat Kohli holds the record for scoring the highest ODI score as an Indian captain on West Indies soil.
- As a captain, he has scored the fastest 4000 runs in Tests.
- Virat is the batsman who has scored the most ODI centuries against Australia on Indian soil.
- Virat is the fastest batsman to score 30, 35 and 40 ODI centuries in his cricket career.
- Virat is the first Indian to score a century against Pakistan in the World Cup.
- He is the first batsman to score maximum 4 centuries in a single season of IPL (2016). After this, Jos Buttler also scored the same century in 2022.
- Virat's highest score as captain in Test is 150 plus.
- He is the only batsman in the history of Test cricket to score 4 double centuries in 4 consecutive series.