Legendary Indian batter Virat Kohli turned 36 today, and with his continuous performance, Kohli has cemented his place as one of the greatest cricketers of all time. However, Kohli’s recent performance for India has been so fragile and the star batter faces criticism from fans and cricket experts.
According to the various media portals, the upcoming Border-Gavaskar trophy against Australia could be the last Test series for some senior players of the team which also includes the name of Virat Kohli. Recently, India lost the three-match Test series against New Zealand by 3-0 where Kohli and Rohit Sharma did not do much with the bat.
In the 6 innings of these three matches, Kohli managed to get only 93 runs with a poor average of 15.50. His highest score in the series is 70 runs. To those who don’t know Kohli scored his last hundred against West Indies which came in 2023, where he got 121 runs.
The Indian management will take some measures step look at the current performance of Team India. The board has included some young players for the series and it will be interesting to see if Virat Kohli comes out with bat or not.
Well, the former Indian captain is celebrating his birthday, we will look upon his achievements.
Virat Kohli is the first batter to score 20,000 international runs in a decade. He achieved this milestone during India’s tour of the West Indies in 2019.
Virat Kohli is the fastest batter to score 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He achieved this milestone in 2018 in just 11 innings.
Virat Kohli is the only cricketer to win all three major ICC annual awards in the same year. After his outstanding performance in 2018, Kohli was honored with the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, ICC Test Player of the Year, and ICC ODI Player of the Year awards.
Kohli holds the record for scoring the most ODI runs in a calendar year as a captain. The right-handed batter scored 1,460 runs in ODI cricket in 2017. During that time, he played 26 ODIs and maintained an average of over 75. The previous record was held by Australia’s Ricky Ponting, who scored 1,424 runs in 2007.
