“Virat Kohli Marks 13 Years In Test Cricket:A Legacy Of Brilliance”
13 Years down the line, Virat Kohli has amassed 8848 runs from 113 Test matches, including a career-high 254 at an average of 49.15, 29 hundreds, and 7 double hundreds. Just after Sunil Gavaskar (10122), Rahul Dravid (13265), and Sachin Tendulkar (15921) is Virat the fourth-highest run scorer for India.
Virat Kohli made his debut in August 2008. He is known as the greatest batsmen of his generation, who holds the record as the highest run-scorer in IPL, ranks second in T20, third in ODI, and stands as the fourth-highest in international cricket. He also holds the record for scoring the most centuries in ODI cricket and stands second in the list of most international centuries scored. He has received many accolades for his performances in cricket.
Many have compared Kohli to the great Sachin Tendulkar, who he considered to be the pinnacle of cricket brilliance, because of the way he approaches the game and his batting technique.
In 2018, he became the first player to win both ICC ODI and Test Player Of the Year awards in the same year. Also, he was named the Wisden Leading Cricketer in The World for three consecutive years, from 2016 to 2018.
At the national level, Kohli was awarded the Khel Ratna award in 2018, India’s highest sporting honor, the Arjuna Award in 2013, and the Padma Shri in 2017.
He was listed as one of the 100 most important persons in the world by Time magazine in 2018. One of the most commercially successful athletes, Kohli is frequently included among the highest-paid people in the world.
The Indian cricket squad is currently based in Bridgetown, Barbados, in preparation for their T20 World Cup Super 8’s match against Afghanistan.
Virat Kohli began his Test cricket career on this day 13 years ago, at Jamaica, which is 1976 km distant from Barbados.
During their 2011 Test tour, India took on the West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica in the first Test match. India won the Test by 63 runs though Kohli scored 4 and 15 in both the innings.
But as Virat went on to become the best batsman of his time and one of the greatest to have ever played test cricket, tranquil the beginning appeared to be the quiet before the storm.
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