Kohli’s captaincy record: India has witnessed many fantastic cricketers and captains, who have made the nation proud. But to list a few, who have changed the scene of entire Indian cricket and listed it as one of the strong teams globally. This is none other than Mahendra Singh Dhoni and to carry on the legacy Virat Kohli. These two changed the look to what Indian cricket is today.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni did change the cricket scenario but did not scoop well through the test series whereas Virat Kohli turned to be an all-rounder under the roof of the man behind the wickets i.e. M. S. Dhoni.
About Kohli’s captaincy record
A 31-year-old batsman, and present captain of an Indian cricket team who is better known for his aggression on the field. He is a right-handed, top-order batsman. He is ranked as the top ODI batsman in the world.
Phenomenal results obtained after his captaincy in Test cricket has made him rank as the topmost in test ranking with a score of 928. Along with this, he has is own scores for test matches, ODI and T20 which are close to 937, 911 and 897 points respectively.
He is the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore. There is a quoted line that speaks everything for this batsman ” He is a consummate surgeon at the crease, intensely focused, working hard, playing the ball into gaps in the field and staying calm under pressure. He is always judging the right time to consolidate and the right time to seize a game, by the scruff of the neck” by former South African captain AB de Villers.
He is one of the fittest and young top scorer of the test series, scoring up to a count of 4574 scores. Amongst his career as captain during the test matches, he is the one to scoop out the best ever test results of the Indian cricket team. From the total played of 50 matches under his captaincy won 30 of them making him score as 60% thereby making him stand third in the list of the top global captain of test matches after Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting.
Kohli’s captaincy record has much to say let’s move down to have a look.
Kohli’s awards and achievement
- Title for being the fastest century scorer in ODI.
- Fastest test captain to score 5000 runs.
- The first cricketer yo be awarded 3 ICC awards in a single year.
- Fastest Indian to score 1000 in ODI’s.
- He received national honors such as Arjuna Award (2013), Padma Shri (2017) and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (2018).
There is still a lot to say about this young man, who attained the zenith of his success at a very early age, and with his fitness and his desire, there is a long way to go. He is going to set some more new records which might not be even part of our imagination but that would create a new list of Kohli’s captaincy record, under his captaincy supervised by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricket team has a long way to go. to know more continue on talepost and for updates visit our facebook.