New Delhi. Virat Kohli has not been able to perform as expected in international cricket for some time now. He was rested from the recently concluded T20 series against West Indies. Indian team won this series 4-1. Now Indian players will enter the T20 Asia Cup (Asia Cup Cricket 2022) cup. Kohli has also got a place in the 15-man squad for the tournament. Here the team also has to play a match against Pakistan. Earlier, although Zimbabwe toured, but only ODI matches are to be held there and for that the young team led by Shikhar Dhawan has got a chance.
Talking about the Asia Cup, India and Pakistan will meet in the group round on August 28. At the same time, the tournament is starting from August 27. If Kohli gets a chance in the T20 match against Pakistan, he will score a special century. This will be his 100th match of T20 International. He will become the second Indian to do so. Captain Rohit Sharma has played the most matches against 132 T20 Internationals.
hit 30 fifties
33-year-old Virat Kohli has scored 3308 runs in 91 innings of T20 Internationals at an average of 50. He is at number three in the world in terms of scoring the most runs. He has scored 30 half-centuries. Best innings of 94 not out. Strike rate is 138. Talking about his overall T20 career, he has scored 10626 runs in 327 innings of 344 matches at an average of 40. Has scored 5 centuries and 78 half-centuries. That is, 83 times he has played an innings of more than 50 runs. Best innings of 113 runs.
Strong performance against Pakistan
Talking about the Indian batsman who scored the most runs against Pakistan in T20 Internationals, then Virat Kohli is at the top here. He has scored 311 runs in 7 matches at an average of 78. Has scored 3 fifties. The strike rate is of 118. No other Indian could even reach the 200-run mark. Former veteran Yuvraj Singh has scored 155 runs in 8 matches and Gautam Gambhir has scored 139 runs in 5 matches. No one else could even reach 100 runs. Rohit has scored 70 runs in 7 innings of 8 matches. 30 not out is the best. At the same time, KL Rahul has scored 3 runs in a match.
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500 plus runs against 3 countries
Virat Kohli has scored more than 500 runs against 3 countries in T20 Internationals. His record against Australia is unmatched. He has scored 718 runs in 18 innings of 19 matches at an average of 60. Has scored 7 fifties. In 19 matches against England, he has scored 589 runs at an average of 39. Has scored 4 half-centuries. Apart from this, in 13 innings of 14 matches against West Indies, he has scored 570 runs at an average of 57. Has scored 6 fifties. Although he has not been able to score a century in international cricket for the last 3 years. In such a situation, he would also like to answer his opponents with the bat in the Asia Cup.
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August 09, 2022, 09:45 IST