Virat Kohli is a professional Indian cricketer born on the 5th of November, 1988. Kohli is a right-handed batsman and is currently the most valuable cricketer in the world. He averages over 50 in all three formats of the game.
His ability to score runs after runs and pile misery on the opposition has ranked him among one of the greatest modern-day batsmen in all the formats of the game. His exploits as a batsman have earned him nicknames like “King Kohli” and “Run Machine.”
Individual Records
Virat Kohli has several records to his name. The Delhte seems to be setting new standards for batsmen with each passing game.
Virat Kohli Records - Test, ODI & T20
Test records
Kohli has scored the most number of runs in a calendar year by an Indian batsman in 2012, 2015 and 2016.
He is the first ever batsman to score double hundreds in four consecutive test series. He achieved the feat against West Indies, England, New Zealand and Bangladesh.
Kohli scored 610 runs against Sri Lanka in 2017 which is the highest by an Indian in a three-match test series.
| Position | Record |
| 7th | Most runs in a match on the losing side (256 runs) |
| 19th | Most hundreds in a career (27) |
| 4th | Most double hundreds in a career (7) |
| 2nd | Most double hundreds in a series (2) |
| 4th | Most hundreds in a series (4) |
| 5th | Most number of hundreds in consecutive innings (3) |
| 40th | Most fifties in career (55) |
| 14th | Fastest player to reach 5000 runs (105) |
| 9th | Fastest player to reach 6000 runs (119) |
| 5th | Fastest player to reach 7000 runs (138) |
| 15th | Fastest player to reach 8000 runs (169) |
| 16th | Most catches in a series (12) |
| 8th | Highest partnership for the fourth wicket (365 runs) |
| 7th | Highest partnership for the eighth wicket (241 runs) |
ODI Records
Kohli has the highest historic rating points by an Indian batsman with 909 points. He is just 26 points behind Vivian Richards who had 935 points in ICC rankings.
Kohli has scored over 300 runs on six different occasions in a bilateral series. No other player has managed to do it more than four times.
The run machine also holds the record for scoring the fastest ODI ton by an Indian. He achieved the feat in just 52 balls against Australia back in 2013 in Jaipur.
Kohli is the fastest Indian to cross 1000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 10000 and 11000 run mark in ODIs. He is the fastest in the world to cross the 8000 and 9000 run mark. He crossed the milestone in 194 innings and South Africa’s AB De Villiers is behind Kohli, who took 11 innings more to achieve that feat.
He is the fastest Indian to reach 25, 30, 35, 40 centuries and the fastest in the world to cross the mark of 30 and 35 centuries. Bowlers have failed to halt his run-scoring abilities.
Kohli holds the record for scoring most runs in a bilateral series. He scored 558 runs in the recently concluded ODI series against South Africa in South Africa.
Since 2010, barring 2015, Kohli has scored most number of runs in a calendar year by an Indian batsman. In 2011 and 2017, he scored 1381 and 1460 runs respectively that was the highest runs by a player in that particular calendar year.
Chasing brings the best out of Virat. He has scored 23 centuries while chasing which is the highest by any batsman. He has done it in just 102 innings while Tendulkar has scored 17 centuries in 232 innings.
| Position | Record |
| NA | Scored 5000 runs and dismissed 50 batsmen through fielding |
| 6th | Most runs (12344) |
| 9th | Most nineties (6) |
| 4th | Most fifties (107) |
| 13th | Fifties in consecutive innings (5) |
| 20th | Best score (183) |
| 12th | Most runs in a year (1460) |
| 4th | Highest runs in an innings on a batting position (183) |
| 4th | Highest batting average (57.68) |
| 2nd | Most hundreds in a career (43) |
| 5th | Most hundreds in a series (3) |
| 1st | Most hundreds against a single team (9) |
| 2nd | Most centuries in consecutive innings (3) |
T20 Records
Kohli has scored the twenty four 50s in T20 cricket and is only behind his team member Rohit Sharma in terms of most fifties scored in the T20 cricket by a player.
Kohli is the fastest to reach 1000 T20 international runs. He crossed the milestone in just 27 innings while Aaron Finch achieved it in 29 innings.
He is the first batsman to score more than 600 runs in a calendar year in T20 internationals. He did it in 2016 with an astonishing average of 106.83 and at a strike rate of 140.26, featuring seven fifties.
Virat Kohli broke the world record for playing the most innings before recording a duck in T20Is. He recorded his maiden T20I duck after 47 innings, playing in his 52nd T20 international.
| Position | Record |
| 2nd | Most runs (3584) |
| 13th | Most runs in an innings (122*) |
| 8th | Most runs in a calendar year (641) |
| 11th | Most runs scored in an innings (batting position) (122*) |
| 7th | Most runs on a single ground (472) |
| 1st | Highest career batting average (51.94) |
| 1st | Most fifties (33) |
| 7th | Fifties in consecutive innings (3) |
| 4th | Most innings before first duck (47) |
| 18th | Most consecutive innings without a duck (47) |
| 9th | Most sixes (104) |
| 3rd | Most fours in career (319) |
| 4th | Fastest to 1000 runs (27) |
| 2nd | Fastest to 2000 runs (56) |
| 2nd | Fastest to 2500 runs (68) |
| 9th | Most catches (46) |
| 19th | Most catches in an innings (3) |
| 10th | Highest third wicket partnership (134) |
| 10th | Most matches (104) |
| 1st | Most player of the match award (13) |
| 1st | Most player of the series award (7) |
Captaincy Records
Just when people thought that they’ve seen the best of Kohli, he comes out with more. Captaincy seems to have improved his stats even more and Kohli has changed the whole outlook of the Indian team.
| Position | Record |
| 11th | Most runs scored in an ODI series (558) |
| 11th | Most runs in an ODI innings (160*) |
| 22nd | Most ODI matches (95) |
| 37th | Youngest ODI captain (24y 239d) |
| 20th | Most runs in T20Is (94*) |
| 7th | Most T20s played (50) |
| 19th | Winning all tosses in a series (3) |
| 6th | Most test matches as captain (68) |
| 33rd | Most consecutive matches as a captain of a team (25) |
| 19th | Captain with the highest test inning score (254*) |
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