After seven long years, Virat Kohli is ready to play a game for India as a player but not as a captain. After losing the Test series 1-2, Team India is gearing up for 3 ODIs, with the first match at Paarl on Wednesday. In the absence of Rohit Sharma, the team will be led by KL Rahul and pacer Jasprit Bumrah will be his deputy.
The focus will be on Kohli as this is also his first match after being sacked as captain. There has been a lot of uproar around him in the last few days but the batsman wants to start afresh. The 33-year-old wants to end this century’s drought that has been haunting him for the past few years. With the burden of captaincy off his shoulders, fans will be looking forward to the return of the old and formidable Kohli.
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1. Ahead ofscheduled tribe ODIs, let’s take a look at some interesting records of Virat Kohli:
* Kohli is a ton away from taking his tally to 71 international hundreds and equaling former Australia captain Ricky Ponting’s long-time record. a 44th The ODI century would also take him close to Sachin Tendulkar’s all-time record in this format.
The century would also place him joint-second with Quinton de Kock (5) and Tendulkar (5) for the most centuries in India vs South Africa ODIs. Former Proteas captain AB de Villiers is at the top with six centuries.
* Kohli has a great chance to beat Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid. With 1287 runs, the former captain is the eighth highest run-scorer against South Africa in ODIs. He needs 26 more runs to overtake Dravid (1309 runs) and Ganguly (131 runs) to become the second Indian on the list after Sachin’s 2001 runs. The other batsmen are Ponting (1879 runs), Kumar Sangakkara (1789 runs), Steve Waugh (1581 runs) and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (1559 runs).
* 887 runs out of 1287 runs on South African soil. If Kohli gets 171 runs in this series, he is the third highest run-scorer in the Rainbow Nation after Sachin (1453 runs) and Ponting (1423 runs), leaving behind Ganguly (1048 runs) and Dravid (930 runs). Become a player. ,
* 113 runs in the upcoming games would make Kohli the third Indian batsman to score more than 1000 runs in four or more countries. He has so far scored 4994 runs in India, 1327 runs in Australia and 1316 runs in England. In doing so, he will overtake Dravid, MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma.
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