Sports Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Rohit Raj
Updated Sat, 05 Mar 2022 04:34 PM IST
Summary
Former India captain Virat Kohli’s bat is silent these days. In 71 consecutive international innings, his bat has not scored a century. Kohli got out after scoring 45 runs in the Mohali Test also after a good start against Sri Lanka.
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Former India captain Virat Kohli’s bat is silent these days. In 71 consecutive international innings, his bat has not scored a century. Kohli got out after scoring 45 runs in the Mohali Test also after a good start against Sri Lanka. During this match, he has completed 8000 runs of his Test career. He achieved this feat, but for the first time in his 11-year long Test career, something happened to him, which has left his fans stunned.
Virat played 31 innings to reach the figure of seven to eight thousand. This is his slowest thousand runs. Virat has touched the figure of eight thousand runs in 169 innings of Test. He scored the first 1000 runs in 27 innings. He played the shortest innings to reach five thousand to six thousand runs. Then he did it in 14 innings only.
Innings played by Kohli in scoring per thousand runs
Run | Turn |
0 to 1000 | 27 |
1000 to 2000 | 25 |
2000 to 3000 | 21 |
3000 to 4000 | 16 |
4000 to 5000 | 16 |
5000 to 6000 | 14 |
6000 to 7000 | 19 |
7000 to 8000 | 31 |
Continuous decline in Kohli’s performance
Looking at this record, it can be said that Kohli’s bat has become really silent now. He has to bat in the old style as soon as possible. The team needs a big score, not 40-50 runs from Kohli. Looking at Kohli’s career, there has been a steady decline in his performance in the last four years. In 2018 he scored 1322 runs and in 2020 only 116 runs. However, then due to Corona, fewer matches were played, but their average was only 19.33.
Year | match | Turn | Run | Average |
2018 | 13 | 24 | 1322 | 55.08 |
2019 | 8 | 11 | 612 | 68.00 |
2020 | 3 | 6 | 116 | 19.33 |
2021 | 11 | 19 | 536 | 28.21 |
2022 | 2 | 3 | 153 | 51.00 |
Kohli second Indian to play 100 matches in the shortest time
Kohli is the second Indian player to play 100 Tests in the shortest time. He played 100 matches in a career of 10 years 257 days. The current coach Rahul Dravid is ahead of Virat in this matter. Dravid completed 100 matches in a career spanning nine years and 271 days. Virender Sehwag took 11 years 20 days for this, Kapil Dev took 11 years 30 days and Sourav Ganguly took 11 years 189 days.