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Matthew Wade. Adam Zampa. Full Name Virat Kohli. Born November 05, , Delhi. Age 33y 9d. Batting Style Right hand bat. Bowling Style Right arm medium. Playing Role Top order batter. India A. India's tour to South Africa in early , their first major away Test assignment since Australia before the World Cup , offers a new challenge: given a green track, is Virat really as good against the new ball?
Is he good enough to play it out in case there are a few quick wickets? He has been protected from the new ball by a stoic Vijay and a solid Pujara until now. However, to make the ascent from 'good' to 'great', Virat Kohli has to prove to the world that he doesn't need to be protected against the new ball; that he is a versatile batsman capable of the grind against the moving ball.
However, it isn't beyond Kohli to prove his critics wrong yet again, as he continues to take criticism on his stride, setting new standards for modern batsmanship. He already possesses an insatiable appetite for runs; and if he can correct this small chink in his armour and adjust his technique to play late and more compact shots in front of him, rather than beside him, then no force could stop him from becoming the perfect batsman.
And as a captain, ruthless as he has been at home, if he can hand India the elusive Test series wins in Australia and South Africa, 'unprecedented' won't even begin to describe the extent of his achievements as a leader.
The final frontier In the first week of , Kohli went on to lead India in South Africa, a few weeks after he tied the knot with Indian actress and long-time girlfriend, Anushka Sharma.
India went on to concede the series in the first two Tests, but came back to win the third Test match on a difficult wicket. Kohli went on to conquer his personal final frontier in England later in too, scoring runs in 10 innings, including 2 hundreds, and not conceding his wicket to his fabled nemesis, Anderson, even once.
India went on to lose the series , and Kohli's record as captain was tainted by two consecutive Test series losses away. Nevertheless, on a personal level, he had left no stone unturned to transform himself into the most consistent and versatile batsman of his age, and arguably the better of the Big Four.
In October , during the second of 3 consecutive hundreds against the West Indies in ODIs, he went on to become the fastest batsmen to reach the 10,run mark in ODIs, trouncing Sachin Tendulkar by a staggering 54 innings. Despite arguments about the two new balls, better bats, batting-friendly conditions, and more lethal bowlers, it was difficult to deny that this was a statistical outlier, very much along the lines of However, being a cricket romantic as we all are , as we reflect on his prolific international career and with a plethora of records to be broken over the next decade one must look back at the CB series knock that changed it all.
On that fateful night at Hobart, Kohli had not only kept his team in contention, he had actually dragged a drained Indian side out of the airport. That night, at the Bellerive Oval, Virat Kohli transcended into a league of his own to etch his name in history - and a cricketing superstar was born. The only player to be a part of a single franchise for the entire duration of the tournament right from the start of the cash-rich league in , Kohli has developed an affection with the franchise and with the fans over the period of time.
Having been brought into the franchise as a young emerging player in , Kohli's growth has been stupendous. It wasn't a free-flowing start, in a team that was struggling to find the essence of the tournament, it wasn't a surprise that they had a struggling youngster in the midst. Having learnt the ropes in the first three-year cycle, it wasn't a surprise that he was the only player retained in The purple patch began somewhere around that region, he then proved it wasn't just a purple patch, it was a career that was beginning to flourish.
Soon after, Kohli became the best in all aspects, not just white-ball cricket, but in the red-ball version as well. It became a no-brainer when he was asked to captain the Bangalore franchise on a permanent basis from and it also translated into more consistency with the bat. Kohli soon turned into a fan favourite even as runs flowed from his bat. Circa, - the India and RCB captain blasted runs - the most by any player in the history of the game and it included four hundreds - the most by a batsman in a single edition.
Alas, all this didn't translate into a title triumph - one that has kept Kohli and Bangalore waiting World Cup through the years Arguably one of the finest ODI batsmen of all-time, and certainly the greatest of his generation, Virat Kohli has played two senior World Cups after leading the junior team to the title in In , on his World Cup debut, Kohli played second fiddle to Virender Sehwag on his way to a fluent hundred against Bangladesh.
After a great innings to start with, Kohli had a quiet World Cup before scoring an important 35 in the final to rescue the chase with Gambhir and lay the foundation for a second World Cup triumph. KEN November 18, NIG November 18, Bangladesh vs Pakistan upcoming.
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