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Virat Kohli Birthday: Indian cricket team’s star batsman and former captain Virat Kohli is celebrating his 37th birthday today. Let us know about his record on this special occasion.
Virat Kohli Birthday: Team India’s former captain and star batsman Virat Kohli is celebrating his 37th birthday today. Virat’s name is included not only in India but also among the most successful players in world cricket, be it Test cricket, ODI or T-20, his bat speaks in all three formats. Under the leadership of Virat Kohli, India became the Under-19 World Champion, after which he got a chance to play for Team India and then he never looked back. On this special occasion, let us see his journey from Chiku to becoming a legendary player of world cricket.
Virat Kohli’s record
Let us tell you that Virat Kohli has played more than 550 matches in his international cricket career. Kohli has 82 centuries in his name in his career. He has emerged as the second player to score the most centuries in international cricket. The name of legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar is at number one. Sachin Tendulkar has scored 100 centuries in his international cricket career.
Virat’s Virat Run
In such a situation, a special post has been shared by BCCI on behalf of Virat Kohli, in which it has been told about Virat’s cricketing record and his career achievements. Virat has played 553 international matches so far in his cricketing career, in which Kohli has achieved a big score of 27,673 runs. Not only this, Kohli has scored a total of 82 centuries and 144 half-centuries in his international career.
Made debut in 2008
Virat Kohli made his debut in One Day International cricket on 20 August 2008. Within about 4 years, he became an important part of the ODI team. He was part of the Indian team that won the 2011 ODI World Cup. However, in 2012, Virat Kohli started working on his own fitness and within a short time, he emerged as the fittest cricketer in the world.
Virat’s team could not win in ICC Trophy
After getting the command of the Test team in the year 2014, he taught the team to win for India on foreign soil. Team India achieved many big achievements under the captaincy of Virat. Under the captaincy of Virat, Team India became the number-1 team in Test and also reached the final of the ICC World Test Championship. Virat has three ICC trophies in his international career. Virat has been a part of the winning teams of ICC Men’s ODI World Cup 2011, ICC Champions Trophy 2013, ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 and ICC Champions Trophy 2025. At the same time, teams like Australia, England and South Africa were defeated on their soil. Virat has been India’s most successful Test captain so far. He led India in 68 test matches where he won 40.
Virat’s excellent record in ODI cricket
If we talk about Virat’s record in ODI cricket, he has retired from T-20 International and Test cricket. Now he is seen playing only in ODI format. In ODIs, Virat has so far scored 14255 runs in 293 innings of 305 matches at an average of 57.71. Virat is second among the players who have scored the most runs in ODIs. In this format of cricket, he has scored 51 centuries with his bat and he is the batsman who has scored the most centuries. During this period he has also been successful in scoring 75 half-centuries.
Virat’s record in Test and T-20
Talking about Test and T-20 formats, Virat has played a total of 123 matches in his career and has scored 9230 runs with his bat in 210 innings at an average of 46.85. During this period he was successful in scoring 30 centuries and 31 half-centuries. Whereas in T-20, he was able to score 4188 runs in 125 matches at an average of 48.69. In this format he managed to score one century and 38 half-centuries.
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