Virat Kohli’s unknown qualities and cricket records

On 5th November 2021 Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli celebrated his 33rd birthday.

On his occasion, birthday wishes were poured in through social medias, messages and other communication channels by his teammates, hard core fans, well wishers and the cricketing community across the world.

As he was leading Indian cricket team for the ongoing Twenty20 World Cup Tournament, this time he got a chance to celebrate his birthday from U.A.E.

Virat Kohli is a wonderful captain of Indian team and he is arguably the best batsmen in the world. He has been leading all formats of Indian cricket team such as twenty20, ODI and Test cricket.

Please find below some his seldom known international cricket records:-

• Scored 22000 International runs from 462 innings.
• Scored 23000 International runs from 490 international matches with a 50+ average.
• He is the only batsman in the world to have an average of 50- plus runs in all formats of the international cricket.
• Scored 70 international hundreds that is the second highest number of International centuries.
• He is is fastest cricket player to reach 9000 international runs from 194 innings.
• He is the only cricket captain to score 1460 runs in a year that is the highest ODI runs in a year.
• He is the fastest batsman to reach 1000 runs from 27 innings in T20 International cricket.
• He is the first first batsman to score three double tons in two consecutive years in Test cricket.​
• He is the first captain to score six ODI tons in one day international cricket in a calendar year.
• Scored 13 ODI centuries that is the most number of ODI centuries taken as a captain of Indian cricket team.

In 2008, Virat Kohli was the captain of the victorious Under-19 Indian cricket team at the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia.

Ever since he started playing for Indian cricket team, he always maintains his fitness level intact and he tries his level best to contribute as much as he can to win the match.

Ever since he became captain of Indian cricket team, he always leading from the front and displaying outstanding leadership qualities.

He is not only displaying excellent batting talent but also fully focusing on the fielding. He is also arguably one of the best fielders in the world.

Virat Kohli always motivates his teammates to play vigorously and to contribute lot for the team while playing. He respects senior players and his respectful attitude towards senior players are highly inspiring to other players in the team.

For the past many years, he has been breaking the world records one after another and he is now widely popular in different part of the world. He is now one of the top influencers for the major brands of different industries.

He is one of the consistent batsmen in the world. His dedication and valuable contribution towards Indian cricket team is unbelievable and unimaginable.

He is still young (only 33 years old) and he will be able to play many years in the international cricket. Considering his ongoing good batting performance, cricket pundits across the world believes that he would break many more batting records of the cricket legends such as Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar.

Virat Kohli’s superb batting technique, excellent footwork, confident mindset, stable head and the firm wrists are his major batting arsenal that has been immensely helping him to become the best batsman in the world.

Ever since Virat Kohli became captain of Indian cricket team, his batting performance never been adversely affected. He created majorities of his batting records while was being the captain of Indian cricket team.

Virat Kohli very well aware about the strength and weakness of his teammates and he knows how to utilize them as and when required.

Virat Kohli is an aggressive captain and his combative attitude while playing is immensely helps Indian cricket team in a bigger manner.