Kohli the special cricketer

 #Happybirthday Virat Kohli . (5th November) 

Just completed 49th century in ODI Cricket in Eden's Garden at 5.45pm.

His fourth in world Cup. 

He has many miles to go and still to reach many milestones in his career. 

Century on his bday after Kambli and Tendulkar. 

Here are his some serious achievements. 

Virat Kohli is the only Indian batsman who got 890 rating points in the ICC ODI ranking. Previously Sachin Tendulkar got the best rating of 887 in 1998.

Virat Kohli has the record of having the highest ICC rating points (922) in the ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen.

Virat Kohli scored six double-centuries as a captain in test matches. He surpassed Cricket legend Brian Lara, who had five double centuries as a test captain.

Virat Kohli has the most number of 150+ scores as captain in Tests – 9 times.

Virat Kohli became the first player to hit consecutive 3 centuries in against two opponents (West Indies & Sri Lanka).

Kolhi is the most successful Indian ODI captain. Kohli’s success rate is 75.89% as a captain which is better than M.S. Dhoni.

Virat Kohli scored more than 20,000 runs at an average of over 50 in all formats -Test matches, One Day Internationals, and T-20 matches.

Rahul Dravid scored 10,000 ODI runs after playing 10 years, 317 days while Kohli achieved this by playing just 10 years and 68 days.

Virat Kohli captained India in 17 T20I bilateral series and won 12 out of them. India lost just 2 series under him.

Virat Kohli becomes the first Indian cricketer to cross 10,000 T20 runs.

Virat Kohli becomes the first-ever player to be part of 50 wins in each of the three formats.

In the 2nd Test match of IND vs NZ 2021 series, India beat New Zealand by 372 runs under Virat Kohli’s captaincy which is the biggest win in terms of runs in the Indian test history.

Ricky Ponting(2006, 2007) and Virat Kohli(2017, 2018) are the only cricketers to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in successive years.

Virat Kohli becomes the first Indian captain in history to win two Boxing Day Test matches. (AUS vs IND – Melbourne Cricket Ground; SA vs IND at Centurion 2021)

Virat Kohli took over the Test captaincy when India was ranked 7th and Virat steps down from Captaincy when India ranked No.1.

Virat Kohli’s batting record as a Test captain: Innings – 113; Runs – 5,864; Average – 54.80; Hundreds – 20; Fifties – 18.

Virat Kohli as captain in international cricket: Matches – 213; Won – 135; Runs – 12,883; Average – 59.92; Hundreds – 41.

On December 10, 2022 Virat Kohli bagged his 72nd century in the 3rd ODI against Bangladesh and surpassed Ricky Ponting’s 71-century mark.

Virat Kohli bagged the ICC Men’s Player of the Month award for October following his impressive performance in the Asia Cup 2022 and in ICC T20 World Cup 2022.

On 11th March 2023, in the 4th Test match of BGT 2023, Virat Kohli surpassed Brain Lara and became the second player to score the most runs against Australia in international cricket behind Sachin Tendulkar.

On 11th September 2023, Virat Kohli became the third player to score the most 50+ runs in the ODI format in a match against Pakistan in Asia Cup 2023 Super 4s.

On October 08, 2023, during the IND vs AUS ODI World Cup 2023 League game, Virat Kohli became the fastest ever in history to complete 11,000 ODI runs at No.3 position.

On October 19 2023, Virat Kohli surpassed Brain Lara and AB de Villers in the list of players with the most runs in ODI World Cups.

On October 19 2023, Virat Kohli became the fastest ever to complete 26,000 runs in International cricket. 

Virat reached this milestone in just 577 innings while Sachin scored 26000 international runs in 601 innings.

Remembering some facts about this great man... 

2011: Makes his debut during Indian Test cricket's worst phase. His heroes Tendulkar, Dravid, Laxman get dismantled in front of his eyes even as he stands up with a century to announce his arrival. 

India lose 0-4, their golden generation, demolished by Australia. 

2014 : He is entering his peak. He scores 4 blistering centuries against Mitchell Johnson led Australian attack that had destroyed England's greatest Test side just the previous summer.

Kohli takes over Test captaincy, and India demonstrate that they can compete. 0-2. A mark of things to come as India don't lose the 2 Test matches he was captaining. 

2018: 7 yrs into his career,  India become the first Asian side ever, and only the third side in the last 20 years to win a series in Australia. 2-1

2021: In 3 years, the Test side he built, do it all over again, just to prove the first time wasn't a fluke. 2-1. 

Indian Test cricket was forever transformed.