It may have been nearly 2 years since Team India’s run machine, the chase master, Virat Kohli hasn’t made a century. What seems like a never-ending wait, is part and parcel of every player’s career. Since joining Team India in 2008, Virat Kohli has achieved great success and owns numerous records. He is one of Team India’s most successful captains and has the highest winning percentage of any Indian skipper to date. Though Virat might be on a break away from cricket, he has a great legacy to look back at right from captaincy records to batting ones. Celebrating his legacy, let us check out 5 unbreakable records of Virat Kohli.
5 unbreakable records of Virat Kohli
1. Wicket on the 0th ball
As strange as it may sound, surprisingly, Virat Kohli has a bowling record that is more or less unlikely to be broken. Many people have succeeded in taking a wicket off the first ball of their careers. However, Virat Kohli took a wicket on his zeroth T20I ball. Kohli’s first delivery went down the legside. Kavin Pietersen, who was outside of his crease, was stumped by Dhoni. The umpire, though, ruled it a wide ball, and Kohli was awarded a wicket off an illegal delivery.
2. Seven double centuries as Test captain
Kohli holds the record for scoring the most number of double-centuries as captain in Test cricket. He slammed as many as seven double tons between 2016 and 2019. Former West Indies captain Brian Lara is next on the list with five Test double-centuries.
3. Fastest Indian Captain to score 5000 ODI runs
As the Indian captain, Kohli became the fastest batsman to score 5,000 runs. On January 19, 2020, at Bengaluru, he accomplished the milestone in the three-match ODI series versus Australia. In 82 innings, Kohli broke Dhoni’s record of 127 innings to reach 5,000 runs as captain. The only other Indian captains with 5,000+ ODI runs, except Kohli and Dhoni, are Azharuddin and Ganguly.
4. Best batting average as Indian captain
Kohli comfortably has the best average by a significant margin among the greatest Indian captains of all time, coming in at 72.65. It’s certainly an astounding stat that he was able to keep up that average after 95 games. During these games, Kohli amassed a remarkable 5449 runs. In 200 games, MS Dhoni scored 6641 runs at an average of 53.5. At a 38.66 batting average, Sourav Ganguly amassed 5104 runs in 147 games. Rahul Dravid, the current coach, had 79 games with an average of 42.19.
5. Virat Kohli’s 70* international centuries
Currently, Virat Kohli is at 70 international centuries and it is certain that before he calls quits from the game, he’ll add a few more to his century list. However, irrespective of consistency it seems nearly impossible for anyone to even come near this record. With 100 and 71 centuries, Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting are ahead of Kohli. Joe Root with 44 tons is the only current player somewhat near to Kohli.
