Former India captain Virat Kohli’s bat has been silent for a long time. He scored a century against Bangladesh in November 2019. Since then, he has not been able to score a century in international cricket. In such a situation, other former players and experts including veteran Kapil Dev are constantly targeting him. There has also been talk of dropping him from T20 cricket.
Team India’s run machine in modern day cricket, Virat Kohli has scored 23,693 international runs at an average of 53.72 in international cricket. He is the only batsman to have the highest run-scorer with an average above 50. The greatest run-scorer in international cricket, Sachin Tendulkar has also scored 34,357 runs at an average of 48.52.
Kohli has already scored 70 international hundreds (43 in ODIs and 27 in Tests). He is third in the list of batsmen with most international hundreds after Ricky Ponting (71) and Tendulkar (100). To this point, he had reached in the year 2019. Since then, a bad phase started in his career. Since the year 2020, his form has been falling and now the situation is such that there is talk of dropping him.
There is talk of dropping Virat from the T20 team, but the surprising thing is that his performance in Tests and ODIs has been poor. In the last two years, he has scored an average of half his entire career in both formats. At the same time, in T20, he has scored runs at a strike rate of more than 50. His performance in Test cricket has been the worst.
Poor condition in Test- Virat Kohli has scored 8074 runs in 102 matches at an average of 49.53 in his Test career. His highest score during this period has been 254 not out. At the same time, in the year 2020-2022, their average has been reduced to half of it. He has scored 872 runs in 18 matches at an average of 27.25. His highest score is 79.
Bat silent in ODIs too – Virat Kohli has scored 12327 runs in 261 matches at an average of 57.87 in his ODI career. His highest score during this period has been 183. He has scored 43 centuries. At the same time, in the year 2019-2022, he has scored only 807 runs at an average of 36.68. During this his highest score has been 89.
Average above 50 in T20 – Virat Kohli has scored 3308 runs in 99 matches of his T20 career at an average of 50.12. His highest score during this period is 94 not out. In 27 matches from 2019 to 2022, he has scored 858 runs at an average of 50.47. His highest score also came at the same time.