2023-08-18 07:51:26
Delhi: August 18, 2008 is the day India’s Virat Kohli welcomed into world cricket. Kohli made his international debut fifteen years ago today. Later, the cricketing world witnessed Kohli’s rise to fame as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. Everyone witnessed Kohli’s bat earning the nicknames Run Machine and King Kohli.
25582 runs and 76 centuries at an average of 53.63 were written in the name of Virat Kohli, who was crowned as the king of world cricket. No one has more international runs, centuries and awards than Kohli since making his debut for the Indian team in the ODI once morest Sri Lanka following the 2008 Under-19 World Cup title. Since 2008, Kohli has scored the most runs, most ODI runs, T20 International runs, most double centuries, most centuries, most fifties, most ICC Championship runs, most ICC awards, most player of the match and most player of the series awards in world cricket.
In Test cricket, Kohli scored 8676 runs in 111 matches with 29 centuries and half-centuries each. King has 12898 runs in 275 ODIs with 46 centuries and 65 fifties. Meanwhile, Kohli scored 4008 runs in 115 Twenty20 Internationals, including one century and 37 half-centuries. Apart from this, Virat Kohli also has the best record in IPL. Kohli has scored 7263 runs in 237 matches in the Indian Premier League. The fact is that there is no other batsman as good as Kohli in contemporary cricket considering all three formats.
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