-Vinay Kumar
Virat Kohli, the ‘Angry Young Man’ of the cricket world and former India captain and one of the world’s greatest batsmen, scored a century of his international Test matches in the Test match against Sri Lanka in Mohali from March 4, 2022. Will complete The Mohali Test match is very special for Virat as well as the current captain of Team India, Rohit Sharma. This will be the first match of Rohit Sharma’s first Test series as Test captain, while Virat Kohli will be the 12th player in the history of Indian cricket to play 100 Test matches.
Significantly, Virat Kohli had resigned from the captaincy of the Test team a few days back. After which Rohit Sharma was also given the command of the Test Test team. The history of international Test cricket tells that Virat Kohli captained the Indian team in 68 Test matches in his Test career, out of which India won 40. Lost in 17 matches and 11 test matches were drawn. Remind you that when ‘Run Machine’ Virat Kohli took over the captaincy of the Test team, then Team India was at number 7 in the ICC World Rankings.
He made India number one in the Test rankings under his captaincy. Not only this, one of the tremendous changes in the team under his captaincy was that the Indian fast bowling unit was perfected. Virat Kohli always supported the fast bowlers more under his captaincy, so that Team India could perform better on foreign pitches. That’s the car. During his captaincy, the Indian fast bowlers took 591 wickets at an economy rate of just 3.
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If we talk about Indian fast bowlers who took 100 or more wickets, then under the captaincy of Virat Kohli, such bowlers took 591 wickets at an average of 26. These include Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah.
Under the captaincy of Virat Kohli, Mohammed Shami took 168 wickets in 46 Test matches, Ishant Sharma took 121 wickets in 43 matches, Umesh Yadav took 104 wickets in 37 Test matches and Jasprit Bumrah took 103 wickets in 24 Test matches. Perhaps this is the reason why Virat Kohli is counted among the greatest captains of the world.
At the same time, if we talk about the performance of Virat Kohli in comparison to Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, then there is only a difference of 19-20 between the two. Because, Virat Kohli has played only 99 Test matches so far. In such a situation, the figures of up to 100 Test matches of Sachin Tendulkar’s career should be looked at.
The history of international cricket tells that Sachin Tendulkar scored 8405 runs in his 100 Test matches at an average of 57.96. In which his 30 centuries and 33 half-centuries were included. At the same time, ‘Angry Young Man’ batsman Virat Kohli has scored 7962 runs in 99 Tests played so far at an average of 50.39, which includes 27 centuries, 28 half-centuries.
Records show that Sachin Tendulkar scored 22 out of 30 Test centuries in the first innings and 8 in the second innings. While Kohli has scored 22 out of 27 centuries in the first innings and 5 centuries in the second innings. Tendulkar had scored 24 half-centuries out of 33 in the first innings and 9 half-centuries in the second innings of the match. Whereas, Virat has scored 13 half-centuries out of 28 in the first innings and 15 half-centuries in the second innings.