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Virat Kohli Completes 12 Years in International Cricket: 12 Impressive Records Held by Indian Cricket Team Captain

Kohli has scored 43 centuries in ODI cricket and has established his image as one of the finest run-chasers in the history of the game. On August 18, 2008, a 19-year-old Kohli, fresh off a victory in the Under-19 World Cup of that year, first turned out to play for India.

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Kohli is the quickest to reach 10,000 ODI runs. He reached the landmark in 205 innings and broke the record of his idol Sachin Tendulkar who had achieved it in 259 innings.

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Virat Kohli first batsman to hit three consecutive hundreds against two different opponents. He did it against Sri Lanka and the West Indies.

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Kohli is the only batsman in the IPL history who has amassed over 5000 runs alone on Indian soil. Out of a total of 5412 runs, he has scored 5061 runs across 156 IPL matches in India.

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Kohli has become only the second India batsman after Sunil Gavaskar to reach the 900-point mark in the ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen.

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As a captain Kohli scored six centuries in the year 2017 and 2018 each. Kohli became the first captain in ODIs to smash six ODI tons in a calendar year.

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Kohli holds the record of having the highest ICC rating points (922) in the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen.

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Kohli is the only Indian batsman who has secured 890 rating points in the ICC ODI rankings. Earlier best rating of 887 was held by the Tendulkar in 1998.

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Kohli is fastest to score 1000 ODI runs in a calendar year. He battered Hashim Amla's record of 15 innings to score 1000 runs in 2010.

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Kohli is the most successful Indian ODI captain. As a captain, Kohli's success rate is 75.89% which is better than legendary MS Dhoni also.

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Kohli also became the first batsman to score 4 double-centuries in four consecutive Test series overtaking Rahul Dravid and Don Bradman who did it in three back-to-back series.

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Kohli has the most number of centuries (21) while chasing. He went past Tendulkar’s record of 17 centuries. Interestingly, Sachin took 232 innings while Virat did it in merely 102 innings.

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In 2016, Kohli became the only batsman in history to have an average of over 50 in all three formats of the game.

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