On this day Virat Kohli completes 15 years of International cricket , some of his top achievements

 

Virat Kohli had stepped into international cricket exactly 15 years ago.  He could not perform well in his debut match, but after that he ruled the cricket world.  Kohli became the world champion and rapidly became the number one batsman in the world.  He became the captain of Team India and gave the team many such victories, which had never been achieved before.

 501 matches, 25582 runs and 76 centuries… these figures are enough to tell all the achievements of Virat Kohli, which he achieved in international cricket in the last 15 years with so much consistency.  On the basis of these figures, he became the king of the cricket world.  Exactly 15 years before today i.e. on 18 August 2008, when he had landed on the field to play his first international, he had a lot of dreams in his eyes.  He wanted to start brilliantly, but it could not happen

 He was able to score only 12 runs in his first international match against Sri Lanka.  He had the sorrow of not being able to compete in his first match, but perhaps the world would not have thought at that time that the boy who could survive even 33 minutes in difficulty, would rule this game in the coming times.  All the big records of the world will be destroyed in the coming 15 years.  Kohli never looked back after this and kept moving forward.

 Kohli, who made his ODI debut in 2008, scored 12898 runs in 275 matches in this format, in which he has 46 centuries and 65 half-centuries.  After 2 years of ODI debut i.e. in 2010, he made his debut in T20.  In 115 T20 matches, he has a total of 4008 runs including 1 century and 37 half centuries.  On the other hand, Kohli, who made his Test debut in 2011, has a total of 8676 runs in this format including 29 centuries and as many half-centuries.

 Today it has been 15 years since he stepped into international cricket.  He registered many achievements in 5475 days of 15 years, but we are going to tell you that his 15 most special things, which he achieved in his career.

 In 2008, under the captaincy of Virat Kohli, Team India won the Under-19 World Cup title by defeating South Africa.

 Kohli was a part of the ODI World Cup winning team in 2011 under the captaincy of MS Dhoni.  Contributed with the bat in India's victory.

Was a part of the Indian team that won the Champions Trophy in 2013.  In the final against England, the highest score of 43 runs by him was scored for Team India.

 In 2013, Virat Kohli became the world's number one ODI batsman for the first time.  In 2018, he became number one in Tests.  He became the only Indian cricketer to become number one in all three formats.

 After the retirement of MS Dhoni from Test cricket in 2014, Kohli was made captain of  the Test team and after that he scored a century against Australia.  Kohli became the first batsman to score three centuries in the first three innings as captain in the history of Test cricket.

 Virat Kohli is the batsman to score highest 4008 runs in International T20 cricket till date .

 He is also the fastest batsman to score 10,000 ODI runs.  He did this feat in 213 matches.  He had left Sachin Tendulkar behind.

 In 2018, he was awarded the country's highest sports honor Khel Ratna Award.

 In 2018-2019, under the captaincy of Kohli, India won the historic Test series in Australia.  Kohli became the first Indian and the first Asian captain to win a Test series in Australia.

 He also captained the T20 and ODI team after the Test.  In 2019, Team India entered the World Cup under his leadership.

 In 2020, the ICC selected him as the best male cricketer of the decade.  He was also voted the best male ODI cricketer of the decade.

 Virat Kohli is the fourth Indian player after Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, MS Dhoni to play 500 international matches.

 Kohli is the second highest player after Sachin Tendulkar to score 76 centuries in international cricket.

 He is the only Indian in the history of Test cricket to score 7 double centuries.

 Kohli was also the most successful Indian captain in the history of Test cricket.  Under his captaincy, Team India won 40 out of 68 matches.  11 matches were drawn.