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Virat Kohli: The Name Speak Itself

After poor performance in first two tests of the Test Series against South Africa; Virat Kohli faced lot of critcism on social media. Not only he but his wife Anushka Sharma also had a lot of troll in the social media, but with fiery batting in one-dyers, Virat Kohli has responded to the critics. Virat is just doing justice to his; like his name he is playing massive innings and going further and further breaking records match by match. 

In the 6 match ODI series Kohli made 3 hundreds and 1 fifty with aggregate total of 558 runs at a whopping average of 186. He become the first ever batsman to score 500 runs in the bilateral series.  Indian captain Virat Kohli finished the ODI series in a very aggressive manner.

Player Inns NO Runs HS Avg 100 50
V Kohli (IND) India in South Africa ODI Series, 2017/18 6 3 558 160* 186 3 1
R Sharma (IND) Australia in India ODI Series, 2013/14 6 2 491 209 122.75 2 1
G Bailey (AUS) Australia in India ODI Series, 2013/14 6 1 478 156 95.6 1 3

With the 35th ODI hundred he is just behind the God of Cricket Sachin Tendulkar and second in the list of most centuries in the ODI cricket. Kohli remained unbeaten on 129 off 96 balls, which included two sixes and 19 fours. And when he reached 71, Kohli became the first batsman ever to score 500 or more runs in a bilateral ODI series.  

Player Mat Inns Runs HS Avg 100 50
S Tendulkar (IND) 463 452 18426 200* 44.83 49 96
V Kohli (IND) 208 200 9588 183 58.1 35 46
R Ponting (AUS) 375 365 13704 164 42.03 30 82
S Jayasuriya (ASL) 445 433 13430 189 32.36 28 68
H Amla (SA) 161 158 7535 159 50.23 26 34
AB de Villiers (SA) 225 215 9577 176 53.5 25 53

Overall Virat Kohli Made 844 runs @ an average of 93.77 in 12 innings combining test matches and ODIs. Kohli’s run aggregate in Test Matches is 286 runs at 47.66 at an average. The only batsman to post a hundred, Moreover his average was also the maximum one. 

In South Africa’s highest run in bilateral series

Runs Players Vs
558*          Virat Kohli SA 2018  (6 Innings)
454             Kevin Pietersen SA 2005  (6 Innings)

413      

Hashim Amla WI 2015  (6 Innings)
410              Faf du Plessis SL, 2017  (5 Innings)

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