15 years ago on this day in 2008, a 19-year-old boy from West Delhi Virat Kohli made his international debut and that guy was destined for greatness.
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Virat Kohli made his international debut on this day 15 years ago and went on to become a giant of the game, and dominated each of the formats on his own, the chase master, the GOAT of world cricket!
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Virat Kohli records
- Virat Kohli is the only Indian batsman who got 890 rating points in the ICC ODI ranking. Previously Sachin Tendulkar got the best rating of 887 in 1998.
- Virat Kolhi has the record of having the highest ICC rating points (922) in the ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen.
- Virat Kohli scored six double-centuries as a captain in test matches. He surpassed Cricket legend Brian Lara, who had five double centuries as a test captain.
- Virat Kohli has the most number of 150+ scores as captain in Tests – 9 times.
- Virat Kohli became the first player to hit consecutive 3 centuries in against two opponents (West Indies & Sri Lanka).
- Kolhi is the most successful Indian ODI captain. Kohli’s success rate is 75.89% as a captain which is better than M.S. Dhoni.
- Virat Kohli scored more than 20,000 runs at an average of over 50 in all formats -Test matches, One Day Internationals, and T-20 matches.
- Rahul Dravid scored 10,000 ODI runs after playing 10 years, 317 days while Kohli achieved this by playing just 10 years and 68 days.
- Virat Kohli captained India in 17 T20I bilateral series and won 12 out of them. India lost just 2 series under him.
- Virat Kohli becomes the first Indian cricketer to cross 10,000 T20 runs.
- Virat Kohli becomes the first-ever player to be part of 50 wins in each of the three formats.
- In the 2nd Test match of IND vs NZ 2021 series, India beat New Zealand by 372 runs under Virat Kohli’s captaincy which is the biggest win in terms of runs in the Indian test history.
- Ricky Ponting(2006, 2007) and Virat Kohli(2017, 2018) are the only cricketers to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy in successive years.
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