Virat Kohli World Records in Cricket

Virat Kholi is the most popular and celebrated cricketer from India and has many records under his name n national as well as international cricket that includes ODIs and Test matches. He is considered as the topmost right-handed batsman who is currently representing team India as its Captain and is also considered as one of the finest contemporary Batsmen in the cricket world. He is also known as a medium pace right-hand bowler and has shown some impressive skill with his bowling in several international matches. After Sachin Tendulkar, he is considered the most dependable player when it comes to batting and scoring runs for India as he single-handedly won many matches for India. He usually plays for the Delhi team in domestic cricket and represents Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

Virat Kholi was the captain of India Under 19s team when in the year 2008, the Indian team rose to the glory of winning the World Cup that was held in Malaysia. Just after a few months of winning the World Cup for the under 19s team, he had his debut ODI against Sri Lanka when he was just 19 years old for team India. Initially, he was considered as the reserve batsman in ODI matches but soon his potential led him to play as a regular teammate for team India. Soon he took the place of a middle-order batsman in the matches where India won the World Cup in 2011. Scoring a hundred runs individually in the test debut he made in the year 2011 against Australia and South Africa he moved a step above the tag “ODI specialist”. In 2013, he was ranked number 1 batsman in ODI matches according to ICC rankings. Kholi proved himself as the best asset to Team India in the T20 Format and won the match of the tournament twice in the T20 World Cup in the years 2013 and 2016. In ODI, Virat Kholi has the second-highest number of Centuries and highest run-chasing centuries in the world.

This article provides a brief overview of Virat Kholi, the great Indian cricketer of this time Virat Kholi world record in cricket.

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Virat Kholi Early Life

He was born on 5th November 1988, in Delhi, to his parents, father Prem Kolhi and mother Saroj Kolhi. He was born in a Hindu Punjabi family. His father is a criminal lawyer by profession and his mother is a housewife. He has two other siblings, an older brother named Vikas and an older sister named Bhavna. When he was three years of age, he used to pick up his bat and swung it, asking his father to bowl at him. Kohli was raised in the Uttam Nagar area in Delhi. He started his schooling at Vishal Public School in Delhi. When he was nine years of age he got his first exposure in the professional cricket club in Delhi after his potential was noticed by some of his neighbors who asked his father to introduce him to professional cricket club without wasting his time in gully cricket. 

Kholi was trained by Rajkumar Sharma during his training in the professional cricket club in Delhi. At the same time, he even played a few matches at Sumit Dogra Academy that was established in the Vasundhra Enclave region of New Delhi. When he was promoted to ninth grade in the school, he quickly shifted his schooling to Saviour School in Paschim Vihar so that he could continue with his cricket practice as his school was near to his practice area. He was good with his academics too as stated by his school teachers. He stayed in Meera Bagh in Delhi till 2015 until they moved to Gurgaon which is in Delhi NCR the following year. Kholi’s father died of cardiac arrest in the year 2006 on the 16th of December as he was ill and bed-ridden for many months.   

Virat Kohli Career

Brief pointers on Virat Kholi's career are as follows:-

1. He was the highest run-scorer in the Delhi under 15 team in 2002-2003 in the Polly Umrigar Trophy tournament. He made his cricket debut in the domestic cricket match as he played for Delhi in the under 15s team. Later after being the highest scorer in the 2002-2003 Umrang Trophy Tournament, he was declared as the captain of the under 15s team of Delhi.

2. In the year 2003-2004, he was selected to play for the under 17s team in the Vijay Merchant Trophy that was also his domestic match. He scored a total of 470 runs in the four matches as he played that came to an average of 117 runs per match that he scored. Even in the second session of the Vijay Merchant Trophy Tournament, with his equally outstanding performance, Delhi won the trophy. 

3. Because of his brilliant performance, his potential was recognized as he was selected in the under 19s team of India during its tour to England in the year 2006. The under 19 team won the matches that year as Virat Kholi scored an average of 105 runs in consecutive three matches of the ODI series played in England. He also scored a remarkable run against team Pakistan Under 19s later the same year. 

4. After his father’s demise in the year 2006 when Kolhi was just 18 years of age, he started taking cricket more seriously because of the financial burden his family underwent.  In 2008, with his extraordinary performance in U-19s team India, the team lifted the World Cup Trophy of ICC U-19 world cup held in Malaysia. He was then hired by Royal Challengers Bangalore under the youth contract of $30,000 in the year 2008 for the Indian Premier League franchise.   

5. He was then taken into the Indian Cricket Team as a reserved batsman by the ICC squad in the year 2008 for the Sri Lanka tour. But he got the chance to open the match as a proxy opening batsman in the entire series of Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar was injured during the Sri Lanka Tour matches. For the first time, India won the series by 3-2, that was India’s first ODI win against Sri Lanka.

6. He then started playing as the middle-order batsman for the Indian International Team from the year 2009. He was awarded as the man of the match for the first time as he scored 79 runs against West Indies in 2009’s group match of ICC champion  Trophy. Later in the same year, he scored his first ODI century in the match played in the home ODI series. He scored a brilliant run of 107 of 111 balls in the series.

7. He then played world cup cricket in the year 2011 and scored 100 runs in a match against Bangladesh and became the first-ever batsman to score 100 in the world cup cricket series. Later in the final match of world cup cricket 2011, Virat scored 35 runs against Sri-Lanka. However, India won the match by 6 wickets and became the champions of World-Cup 2011 after a long time since its Win in the year 1983.

8. He then played in the place of injured Yuvraj Singh as appointed in the test-match squad of the four-match series that took place in England in 2011. But he did not play in any of the test series and was rather tagged as the successful scorer of the ODI series. 

9. In December 2011, he made his mark for the first time in a test match during the Australia Tour. Though India lost the match by 4-0, Virat Kholi was announced as the top scorer of the Indian team in that series. He scored his first century in the first innings of the fourth innings of the test match held in Adelaide. He scored 116 runs in the innings. 

10. In the 2012 Asia Cup that was held in Bangladesh, he played the role of Vice-captain and scored 183 runs chasing against Pakistan. It is the highest score against Pakistan in an ODI and also broke the world record of 156 runs of Brian Lara of the West Indies team. But unfortunately, team India couldn’t make it to the final of the Asia Cup. 

11. Even throughout the year 2013, he played marvelously in every ODI match of seven-match series against Australia. There he established a record of the first Indian batsman to score the fastest century in ODI while playing his second ODI match. He scored 100 out of 52 balls. With his 100 not-out scores, India was able to quickly chase down a score of 350 by the Australian team.

12. In 2014, after Dhoni stepped down from the captaincy and declared his retirement from the ODI matches, Virat Kholi was appointed as the captain of team India. In the same year, he scored a whopping score of 692 runs in the four test match series which is recorded as the highest score of any Indian batsman in the Test series in Australia.

13. Though his career saw a downfall in the year 2015 as he could not score high runs during the matches that were played in that year but he came back to his form in the year 2016. Later in that year, he scored 1000 runs in T20 cricket during the South Africa Tour. With this, he became the record holder of the fastest batsman to score 1000 runs in a series.

14. He performed terrifically in the year 2016 when team India reached the semi-final of the T20 World Cup that was conducted by India.   

Virat Kohli World Records List

Some of the Virat Kholi World records is as follows:

1. First Indian batsman to score a rating of 890 points in ICC ODI ranking.

2. In the ICC ranking for the Player batsman in test matches, Virat holds the highest rating point of 922.

3. As captain of the test match, he scored the highest six double centuries. He broke the world record of Brian Lara.

4. He hit three consecutive centuries against the matches with two teams individually, Sri Lanka and West Indies.

5. Virat Kholi is considered the best captain of India with a success rate of 75.89% which is more than M.S. Dhoni. 

6. In all the formats of the match, that is, ODI, test matches, T20 and others he scores a total of 20,000 runs so far which makes his average of 50 per match of all the matches he has played so far.

7. The highest score of 10,000 runs in ODIs by an Indian cricketer was scored by Rahul Dravid in 10  years and 317 days, which was broken by Kholi when he scored the same runs in just 10 years and 81 days. 

Among Other Prominent Records of Virat Kholi are:-

1. Most ODI runs in calendar years 2010, 2011,2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.

2. Most runs in IPL matches is around 973 runs.

3. Most double centuries hit by Indian Cricketers in test matches.

4. Highest combined run score by an Indian cricketer in international matches, that is, 2818 runs in the year 2017.

5. Second highest century by an Indian cricketer, Second highest century by any Indian Cricketer, most test and ODI runs by any cricketer in 2018.

6. In the IPL tournament, the first batsman to reach 6000.

7. Fastest cricketer of the world to reach 30 and 35 centuries in international ODI matches.

8. Second fastest to reach 1000 runs in T20 matches.

9. With 17000 runs in 363 innings, he became the fastest cricketer in the world to reach that score in International cricket.