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An innings-by-innings breakdown of Kohli's T20I batting career, showing runs scored (blue and red (not out) bars) and the black line is his career batting average. Kohli is the only cricketer to have been named the Player of the Tournament in the T20 World Cup on two separate occasions, in 2014 and 2016. [152]
Virat Kohli has scored 81 centuries in international cricket.. Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer and a former captain of the India national cricket team.A right-handed top-order batsman, he has made 81 centuries in international cricket—thirty in Test cricket, fifty in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and one in Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) as of November 2024.
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. [1] [2] In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of ...
In terms of innings, India's Virat Kohli—the fifth Indian to reach the milestone after Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni—is the fastest (205) to reach the 10,000 run mark, [a] while Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene is the slowest to achieve the feat (333). Kohli also holds the record of highest number of centuries (50).
Kohli's test form dipped during the first three matches of England's tour of India, between October 2012 and January 2013, with a top score of 20 and England leading the series 2–1. [72] Overcoming his poor run of form, he scored a patient 103 from 295 balls in the last match. [112]
In cricket, a player is said to have scored a century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. Test cricket, the longest version of the game, involves two innings per side in a match. An individual scoring centuries in each innings of a Test match, a feat which is called "Twin centuries," is considered a "milestone" by critics.
The first Test triple century was achieved by Andy Sandham of England against the West Indies in 1930 in the first Test series hosted in the West Indies. [4] The quickest Test triple-century was scored in 4 hours 48 minutes, by Wally Hammond for England against New Zealand at Auckland in 1932–33. [1]
Joe Root has scored 7 Test centuries at the ground. The Indian Dilip Vengsarkar is the only overseas player to have scored 3 Test centuries at the ground. [4] There have been 251 Test centuries scored at the ground. 32 ODI centuries have been scored at Lord's to date. The first, 137 from 147 deliveries, was made by Dennis Amiss in 1975. Amiss's ...