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Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are only two players in ODI history who have scored 5 or more centuries for consecutive 3 years. Virat Kohli scored 6 centuries each in 2017 and 2018 and 5 ODI centuries in 2019. On the other hand, Rohit Sharma is scored 6 centuries in 2017, 5 centuries in 2018 and 7 ODI centuries in 2019.
Virat Kohli holds the record of most runs in a single IPL season, 973 runs
Virat Kohli is the ONLY BATSMAN WITH 50 PLUS CAREER AVERAGE IN T20 INTERNATIONALS. As of July 2021, Kohli has scored 3,159 runs with a super impressive average of 52.65 in 84 innings.
The largest margin of victory in ODI cricket is recorded by India when they defeated Sri Lanka by 317 runs in a match played on January 15, 2023. India, batting first, posted a mammoth total of 390 runs, and then bowled out Sri Lanka for just 73 runs.
In a T20I match against England in 2011, Virat was bowling to Kevin Pietersen. He ended bowling a wide first ball and Pietersen who was charging down was stumped down the leg-side by MS Dhoni. So, Kohli didn’t bowl a single ball in international cricket as his first ball was a wide but since a stumping goes in the account of the bowler, he had a wicket!
Virat Kohli achieved this feat of reaching 13000 runs in just 267 innings. This is fastest by any batsman in ODI history. Kohli broke the record of great Sachin Tendulkar who reached to the milestone of scoring 13000 runs in ODI cricket in 321 innings.
In 2018, Virat Kohli was awarded as the ICC Cricketer of the Year, ICC ODI Player, along with ICC Test player of the year
Virat Kohli shares the record of MOST HUNDREDS AGAINST ONE TEAM IN ONE DAY INTERNATIONALS with great Sachin Tendulkar. They both have registered 9 centuries against West Indies and Australia respectively.
Virat Kohli holds the record of MOST HALF CENTURIES IN T20 INTERNATIONALS. As of July 2021, he has scored 28 half centuries in T20 Internationals in 84 Innings.
Virat Kohli is also the first Indian to hit 7 double hundreds. Kohli surpassed Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag, who had 6 double hundreds to their names.