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Virat Kohli is now king of all formats of cricket, breaks more records

  • India's win against Sri Lanka was its 17th test win with Virat Kohli as captain
  • His hundred against Sri Lanka took his average in Test cricket to 50.03, making him the only player to average over fifty in test, ODI and T20 formats. He averages at 52.96 in T20Is and 54.68 in ODIs.
  • Kohli went past Sourav Ganguly and had equalled VVS Laxman and Dilip Vengsarkar’s tally of 17 tests tons.
Virat Kohli is now king of all formats of cricket

India handed out a crushing defeat to Sri Lanka at Galle on Saturday, July 29. They won over the hosts by 304 runs, taking a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. And at the helm of it all was skipper Virat Kohli.

With a menacing hundred against Sri Lanka that eventually helped India register a record win at the Galle, Kohli also set a few records in the match.

This match was Kohli’s 17th Test win as India captain. He is tied for the third place with Michael Vaughan; Steve Waugh leads the list with 20 wins while his successor Ricky Ponting had won 19 out of his first 27 matches. 

The century took his average in Test cricket to 50.03, making him the only player to average over fifty in test, ODI and T20 formats. He averages at 52.96 in T20Is and 54.68 in ODIs.

Kohli also holds other records including the fastest ODI century, along with the fastest batsman to score 5,000 ODI runs and also the fastest to score 10 ODI centuries.

Kohli went past Sourav Ganguly and had equalled VVS Laxman and Dilip Vengsarkar’s tally of 17 tests tons.

Kohli has 10 Test centuries as India's Test captain which is only second to Sunil Gavaskar who scored 11 Test tons in 74 innings. This was Virat Kohli's 44 Test innings.

In T20Is, Kohli holds the record of scoring fastest 1,000, most runs in a single calendar year and most half-centuries.
 


 

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