Virat Kohli have been around for quite a long period of time their is no format of cricket left he have not played and achieved greater heights today I will be telling you what Virat Kohli achieved in last 11 years and how he was different from other sports persons, we will also be talking about how he have transformed Indian cricket enormously.
Virat Kohli became the World Champion at a very young age in 2011 when he was only 23 years old the most charismatic characteristic of him was his never give up attitude it was a transition period for Indian cricket team which comes after every 10 years as it was the last Worldcup of the great Sachin Tendulkar everyone knew the end is near and the team will definitely get a setback after his retirement but they don't know what's coming their way!
Young Virat Kohli one day wake up and looked at himself in the mirror and said to himself that he cant look like this if he wants to play cricket of the topmost level and then he transformed himself on all fronts from rigorous gym sessions to intense net sessions to a strict balanced diet he mastered it all.
When Virat Kohli took over the Test captaincy in 2014 he have already made his name as talented youngster whom we will talk about a lot in the future and when the reporter asked him about where he see this side in next 5 years, he said he want to take this side to the top and want to play every game for win and not just for draws. When he took the captaincy the test team rankings was 7 and he claimed top spot for 5 long years in which he made his team a dominating force at home and a challenging side overseas also India won almost 40 games out of 60 games he captained.
Virat Kohli took over the limited overs captaincy in 2017 in which he led the team to the finals of the Champions Trophy and took Indian team to greater heights in the white ball cricket, from being a talented youngster in 2011 Worldcup to becoming one of the most reliable batsman at the top order, scoring fastest 8000, 9000 and 10000 runs in ODI format simply make him one of the greats of the format.
Whenever we talk about legends of our game we generally talk about a player's dominance in Test cricket and ODI cricket but what made Virat Kohli different is his dominance in the shortest format of white ball cricket out of the 4 great batsman which we generally talk about of this era only Virat Kohli have scored 10,000 runs in T20 format 4008 runs in T20 internationals and 6624 in IPL
Virat Kohli have scored 12809 runs in ODI format and simply considered as one of the most dangerous batsman of this format and simply the reason for that is because he have scored fastest 8000, 9000 and 10000 runs in this format, it was not that he was not good in T20 cricket and Test cricket but if we talk about T20 cricket he is the highest run scorer in the whole world and have scored highest amount of runs in T20 Worldcups for India and won man of the series twice and if we come to test cricket he used to have more centuries than half centuries in the format a while ago and have scored 8119 runs in the format, what made him different in this format was his never give up attitude and the fighting spirit till the very end...
Their will never be an all format great like Virat Kohli the baton of taking this team forward would keep on passing with young energy bringing new aspects to the game but his legacy will not be matched by anyone...
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