Virat Kohli Record in Finals
The Indian team won the last ICC title in the year 2013. Since then till now the team has played 9 ICC tournaments and lost in all. Former captain Virat Kohli has been in a very bad condition in the final of any tournament or tri-series. Kohli's records in the title match may surprise you
Virat Kohli Record in Finals
- 2* runs Vs Sri Lanka - Compaq Cup, 14 September 2009
- 2 runs Vs Sri Lanka - Tri-Series, 13 January 2010
- 28 runs Vs Sri Lanka - Asia Cup, 24 June 2010
- 37 runs Vs Sri Lanka - Tri-Series, 28 August 2010
- 35 runs Vs Sri Lanka - 2011 World Cup, 2 April 2011
- 43 runs Vs England - Champions Trophy, 23 June 2013
- 2 runs Vs Sri Lanka - Tri-Series, 11 July 2013
- 77 runs Vs Sri Lanka - T20 World Cup, 6 April 2014
- 41* runs Vs Bangladesh - T20 Asia Cup, 6 March 2016
- 5 runs Vs Pakistan - Champions Trophy, 18 June 2017
- 44 & 13 Vs New Zealand - Test Championship Final, 18 June 2021
- 14 and 49 Vs Australia - Test Championship Final, 7 June 2023
Kohli played a total of 12 finals in his career
Kohli has played a total of 12 final matches in his career so far. During these matches, Kohli has batted in 14 innings, in which he has scored 392 runs at an average of just 32.66. Kohli has not scored a single century in 14 innings of 12 finals. While he has scored 75 centuries in 498 matches of his international career. But not a single century has come in the title match.
Century is a distant thing, only one could score fifty. Kohli scored this solitary fifty in the final of the 2014 T20 World Cup against Sri Lanka, when he scored an inning of 77 runs. But this match was also lost by the Indian team.
Virat Kohli played 8 ODIs, 2 T20s and 2 Tests in the final
Kohli has played 8 ODIs, 2 T20 and 2 Test matches in 12 final matches. Both these Test matches were played under the World Test Championship only, Kohli could not score even fifty in these two Test finals. He also had a chance to score a century in 4 innings but he flopped and the Indian team also had to face defeat in both the finals.
Kohli played only once in the T20 World Cup final in 2014, when he scored 77 runs. Kohli also played the ODI World Cup final only once in 2011. This ODI World Cup was definitely won by the Indian team, but even in that title match, Kohli could score only 35 runs in 69 balls. His strike rate was also very poor i.e. 71.42.
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