Happy Birthday Virat Kohli: Indian team's star batsman Virat Kohli is celebrating his birthday today. King Kohli turned 36 on 5 November 2024. At present, King Kohli is an important player of the Indian team, where he has played very important and excellent innings for Team India.
In the year 2024, Virat Kohli retired from T20 International cricket after India won the title in the T20 World Cup 2024. Now he is seen playing in Test and ODI cricket. Everyone is aware of the craze of King Kohli.Fans always eagerly wait for his birthday and today fans are wishing him a happy birthday in different ways on social media. In such a situation, on Kohli's birthday today, let us know the top-10 records of his cricket career.
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Virat Kohli is jointly at the top with former Pakistan captain Babar Azam in terms of scoring most half-centuries in T20 Internationals. Kohli has scored 4188 runs in a total of 125 matches in T20 International from 2010 to 2024, in which 39 half-centuries have come from his bat.
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Virat Kohli holds the record of scoring the fastest 3500 runs in T20 International. He achieved this special feat in the T20I match played against Afghanistan in Dubai on 8 September 2022. King Kohli achieved this feat in just 104th match and 96 innings.
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Virat Kohli made his World Cup debut in the year 2011. Kohli scored a century in that match played against Bangladesh. He became the first Indian to score a century in his World Cup debut match.
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Virat Kohli holds the record of scoring most centuries (10) against a team (Sri Lanka) in ODI cricket. He has scored 10 centuries against Sri Lanka, while he has scored 9 centuries against West Indies in a total of 43 ODIs.
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Virat Kohli also holds the record of scoring the second most centuries in a calendar year. He scored 11 centuries in 37 matches (Tests, ODIs and T20Is combined) in 2018. Sachin Tendulkar is ahead of Kohli in this matter, who scored 12 centuries in 39 matches in a calendar year in 1998.
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As Indian captain, Virat Kohli has captained in a total of 213 matches (Tests, ODIs and T20Is combined). He is at number 8 in terms of playing cricket matches as a captain. MS Dhoni holds the record of playing the most number of matches (332) as a captain.
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In 2018, Kohli became the fastest captain to score 4000 Test runs. He achieved this feat in his 65th innings. The previous record was held by Brian Lara, who took 71 innings to achieve this feat.
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The record of scoring the fastest 13000 runs in ODI cricket is registered in the name of Indian team's star batsman Virat Kohli. He did this feat in his 278 ODI match against Pakistan on 10 September 2023.
In this case, he is also ahead of the great cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who achieved this feat in his 321 ODI match.
Not only is he the fastest 13 thousand runs in ODIs, but he also has the fastest 8000 runs, 9000 runs, 10000 runs, 11,000 runs, 12,000 runs.
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Indian team's star batsman Virat Kohli has the most Player of the Series awards in all three formats of cricket (Test, ODI and T20I). He has won this award 21 times while playing a total of 538 matches since 2008. He has won the Player of the Series award three times in Tests, 11 times in ODIs and 7 times in T20Is.
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Virat Kohli has scored 13906 runs while playing a total of 295 matches in ODI cricket from 2008 to 2024. During this, 50 centuries have come off his bat, while 72 times fifty has come off his bat. He is the first cricketer to score the most 100 in ODIs.
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