Virat Kohli and chasing- A love affair made for eternity.
King Kohli today reached his third consecutive hundred in the ongoing ODI series against the Windies, thus helping in tumbling more records under his name. When it comes to chasing targets in ODI cricket, nobody gets better than the Indian skipper.
This comes just two days after he became the fastest batsmen to reach 10,000 runs, surpassing batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar's record of achieving in it 259 innings. Well, the wonder boy took 54 innings less than the legend to achieve it.
With this ton, he became the first Indian batsmen to score three consecutive ODI centuries. In fact, this is his fourth consecutive ODI ton in his last four games in India.
Also, he is just eleven tons away from equaling Tendulkar's record of 49 centuries and just 12 away from becoming the batsmen with highest number of centuries in ODIs. Going at this rate, it won't be far before we witness that feat too
The new Mr. Consistent of world cricket has now smashed 23 ODI hundred while chasing, most by any batsmen in the world. He averages 78.47 (till Oct 24) while chasing, way ahead of the likes of some of the best finishers in the world, MS Dhoni, AB De Villiers, Michael Bevan and others to name a few.
He crafted his name in the record books for another reason today – fastest to 6,000 ODI runs in Asia.
A MILESTONE CHECK
Test Records
ODI Records
T20 Records
It is evident that King Kohli is not someone to go by the records and will just stop at this. The hunger and passion for the game has turned this wonder kid of Indian cricket to one of the most consistently devastating batsman around the world. This is just the beginning for Virat "Unstoppable" Kohli.
(Stats courtesy : Sportskeeda)