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India's Virat Kohli astatine the Wankhede Stadium during the bid against New Zealand.
(Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
Virat Kohli’s sanction is connected each Australian’s lips arsenic the much-awaited Border Gavaskar Trophy approaches. The 5 Tests betwixt India and Australia volition airs a beardown situation for the Indian cricket team, who caput into the astir two-month-long bid connected the backmost of a world cheque astatine location astatine the hands of New Zealand.
Kohli himself heads into the bid against Australia arsenic a antheral who’s not astatine the highest of prowess. Or astatine slightest that’s what the numbers person america believe. Yet, Australian media and the former Australian cricketers similar Ricky Ponting person spent plentifulness of clip talking astir the menace helium poses.
Ahead of the India vs Australia series, a look astatine Kohli’s astir notable numbers:
Virat Kohli’s numbers heading into Border Gavaskar Trophy
22.72: Virat Kohli’s Test mean successful 2024 is his lowest crossed each calendar years wherever helium has featured successful astatine slightest 10 innings.
54.48 : Virat Kohli’s Test mean successful 25 innings successful Australia is his champion extracurricular India (55.58 successful 87 innings)
Dec ’14 – Feb ’21: Virat Kohli’s Test vocation highest for 100 consecutive innings began with the 2014-15 circuit successful Australia and lasted betwixt his 52nd and 151st Test innings successful aboriginal 2021. He scored 5608 runs successful the play with 21 hundreds, a feat lone bettered by Sachin Tendulkar (5729, 22) among Indians for 100 consecutive innings.
India’s Virat Kohli bats successful the nets astatine the Wankhede Stadium during the bid against New Zealand. (Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
6: Virat Kohli has struck six Test hundreds successful Australia, level with Sachin Tendulkar among Indians and lone bettered by English legends Jack Hobbs (9) and Wally Hammond (7) successful history.
47.83: Virat Kohli’s existent Test mean is his lowest since November 2016, erstwhile helium averaged 46.11 up of his 50th Test. Kohli’s mean slipped beneath 50 for the archetypal clip successful 5 years successful 2022 and has been connected a freefall since.
41 : Among 46 players successful positions 1-6 to people 1000 Test runs since 2020, Virat Kohli’s mean (31.68) is the sixth-lowest, for 1838 runs successful 60 innings. Only 3 batters person deed less centuries than Kohli (2) successful this time.
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