Virat Kohlis greatness: Beyond numbers and statistics
Virat Kohlis greatness: Beyond numbers and statistics
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302 ODI matches, 51 centuries, 74 half centuries, 14,180 runs, fastest to 8,000, 9,000, 10,000, 11,000, 12,000, 13,000 and 14,000 ODI runs, most runs in a single World Cup edition, most centuries against a single team, most catches for an Indian in ODIs.
These are just a few of the many Virat Kohli records that might stand the test of time in One Day Internationals. But the great batter is much more than records. A once-in-a-generation player who has given India some of the most memorable moments in the format. A batter who transcended what many believed was not humanly possible. A leader who led from the front and stood tall when his team needed him the most. Virat Kohli will go down as one of the greatest ever to have played the ODI format.
“Number 50 arrives for Virat Kohli and he stands alone aloft on that summit,” said Harsha Bhogle when Kohli ran back for the second run and registered his 50th ODI century. He had done it, he had become the greatest ODI batter of all time and he had achieved it in a World Cup semifinal in front of a packed Wankhede crowd that included the man he had just overtaken– Sachin Tendulkar.
The Wankhede stadium was on its feet, at its loudest and none of this would have been imagined 12 years ago when Kohli had walked onto the same ground as the youngest member of the team after the fall of Tendulkar wicket in the World Cup final.
The journey from entering the ground with stunned silence to entering it with people celebrating an Indian
2025-03-10
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Anushka Tripathi
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