Virat Kohli Records: Complete ODI, Test, T20I & IPL Stats

There is a rhythm to the way Virat Kohli builds an innings. A small shuffle on release, the head still, the bat coming down like a metronome; then the hands take over, and the ball hurries into the gaps as if pre-briefed. You do not watch him accumulate as much as you watch him insist on order. Over a long international career, that insistence has produced a record book as imposing as any modern cricketer’s. This page is a living hub of Virat Kohli records, milestones and split stats across ODI, Test, T20I and IPL, written for readers who care about the story behind the numbers as much as the totals themselves.

Career overview and milestones

Kohli’s record is a sum of many small certainties. The certainty that once he is in, he rarely gives it away. The certainty that if a chase is plausible, he will find a way to make it probable and then inevitable. The certainty that excellence is not a spike but a habit. The raw facts already border on the surreal.

International centuries across formats: 80
ODI centuries: 50, the most by any batter
ODI runs: over 13,000, with the fastest progression to every thousand from eight to thirteen
T20I batting average around fifty, sustained for a long career in the shortest format
Seven Test double hundreds, highest Test score 254*
All-time leading run-scorer in the IPL, first batter past 8,000 runs
Most runs in a single edition of the ODI World Cup, 765, plus the player-of-the-tournament award for that campaign

What separates this portfolio is the spread of dominance. He has a world-beating ODI engine, a deep catalogue of match rhythms in T20Is, hundreds of sustained hours in Test cricket against the best attacks on varied surfaces, and the biggest footprint in the IPL. If you are building an all-format blueprint for a batting career in the modern era, his is the canonical version.

The ODI records that redefined chasing

Kohli’s ODI game is the most studied modern template for top-order batting. It starts at a calculated simmer and, if the day allows, ends in a rolling boil.

Centuries and the fastest-to story

Fifty ODI hundreds sit at the heart of the collection. The speed at which he arrived there is as remarkable as the mountain itself. He trimmed the waiting time at each checkpoint: fastest to eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve and thirteen thousand ODI runs; fastest to the halfway century of ODI hundreds. Those milestones are not decorative. They indicate that he never meandered. He kept the cadence of an elite striker, series after series, year after year without us writing the number.

ODI hundreds: 50
Highest ODI score: 183
ODI average: in the high fifties
Strike rate: in the low to mid nineties, with the gear-change intact in the last 15 overs

Chasing records that built a legend

Kohli’s records while chasing are the spine of his ODI legacy. No one has made more hundreds in chases. His average in successful pursuits is among the highest ever. He does it without the mania of sixes; the control comes via high contact quality and ruthless strike rotation. Once the chase equation collapses below a run a ball, the game feels over long before the handshake.

A non-exhaustive, expert-ranked set of chases that define this index

Hobart, tri-series final-leg vs Sri Lanka: 133* off 86, a demolition that neutralised Lasith Malinga’s yorkers and straightened the chase trajectory in a way that broke the morale of the fielding side around the thirty-fifth over
Mirpur vs Pakistan: 183, a chase that began with high risk in the first powerplay and matured into a lesson in clean driving and seam-length punishment
Kandy vs Sri Lanka: 131* with a closing flurry where he changed angles to find the midwicket fence on demand
Mohali vs Australia, T20I: 82* with a final-overs sprint that featured placement more than power, including those inside-out shots over cover at knee-bend height
Melbourne vs Pakistan, T20 World Cup: 82*, the most cinematic chapter, culminating in that back-of-length swipe into the top tier over straight, followed by the no-look whip that ka-chinked off long-on

World Cup records that carry global weight

He now owns the record for the most runs in a single ODI World Cup edition with 765. That campaign had nine fifty-plus scores, another record, and the weight of his innings repeatedly transferred tight games into safe lanes. He collected the player-of-the-tournament award that edition. The other enduring World Cup image is a semifinal at Wankhede, a hundred assembled with serenity under a haze of pressure where he leaned into cover-drives as if they were breaths, not strokes.

Versus-team splits that matter most

Vs Australia in ODIs: a rivalry that sharpened his intent. He has a heavy stack of hundreds against them across home-and-away cycles, often against new-ball attacks that still had their teeth in
Vs Pakistan in ODIs and T20Is: the cleanest striking under extreme audience noise, with an unmatched sequence of tournament contributions
Vs Sri Lanka: a bank of chases and big numbers that powered his milestone ladder
Vs South Africa and England: tough runs in bowler-friendly segments, especially in early tours, followed by high-quality corrections once he tightened his fourth-stump disciplines

Venue-wise ODI highlights

Adelaide Oval: a cathedral of his driving; multiple hundreds with on-square angles that punish anything slightly full
Kolkata, Eden Gardens: big-match temperament translated into tempo control as the ball gets older
Mumbai, Wankhede: a fast outfield that suits his timing; a stage where the magnitude of the occasion seems to amplify his calm

ODI records summary

ODI hundreds: 50
Most hundreds in ODI chases
Most runs in a single ODI World Cup edition: 765
Fastest to multiple ODI run milestones from 8,000 through 13,000
ODI highest score: 183
ODI average: high fifties
ODI strike rate: low to mid nineties

Test records that prove the long-game credentials

A great ODI player who excels in T20Is may still be incomplete until the Test record stands up to the old-fashioned audit. Kohli’s does.

Centuries and double hundreds

Seven double centuries in Tests speak to the core of his red-ball method. He rarely flits; he settles, then plants. The best of these doubles show a deliberate sequence of escalation. Against pace, his early movement is narrower, the bat face presented late and straight. Against spin, he plays for makers’ names and presents the full blade with a downward press, making the ball obey his chosen groove. When the pitch flattens or the ball softens, he shifts into hard hands through cover and down the ground. The result is that innings scores like 200, 211, 235, 204, 213, 243 and 254* are not balloons but bricks.

Test hundreds: 29
Double centuries: 7
Highest Test score: 254*
Test average: around fifty
Hundreds as captain in Tests: a healthy count spread across home and away

Home and away, including SENA scrutiny

The old currency for batting greatness remains runs in South Africa, England, New Zealand and Australia. Kohli’s ledger shows early grit in South Africa and Australia, a tangible refinement of his judgement in England once he stopped flirting with the wobble outside off, and a sustained appetite for long hours in Australia where the bounce suits his back-foot game. His best away hundreds feature two constants: patience in leaving, and that throat-clearing moment around thirty when he allows himself the extra half-step into the ball and begins to score on demand.

Fourth-innings temperament

He has played several fourth-innings anchors where a hundred did not happen but a match was saved through forty-something and sixty-something scores assembled ball by ball, shot by shot. That thread is as important as a double. On treacherous days, defiance looks like thirty dots and a single to square leg; that too is in his bag.

Test records summary

Double hundreds: 7
Highest score: 254*
Test hundreds: 29
Test average: around fifty
Captained India to the most Test wins for any India captain, with a dominant home cycle and meaningful away wins

T20I records and the art of pacing the shortest format

Kohli entered T20Is as an ODI-anchoring artist and built a T20I game based on risk selection, not compulsive power. The numbers reward that philosophy.

Among the top run-scorers in T20I history
Career average around fifty, unprecedented for such a large body of work
Strike rate in the high 130s with end-overs spikes above 175 when the base is set
Most fifty-plus scores in T20Is across a long span of matches
Two player-of-the-tournament awards in T20 World Cups, a unique badge for consistency

The Melbourne classic, an 82* in a T20 World Cup chase under a clouded sky and under lights, is the thesis statement. In that innings he did not swat at good balls; he waited them out. When bowlers misread the length, he cashed the mistake with either the hard drop-kicked flick or the arrow-straight loft. He needed a sense of the camera that night, and he had it, but he also needed a lifetime of muscle memory to pull off a back-foot straight six like that. The rest of his T20I file is full of the middle-overs glide: a clip here, a deft late-cut there, and a runner between the wickets who treats singles like legal theft.

T20I records summary

T20I average: around fifty
Strike rate: high 130s, with phase-specific gear changes
Most fifty-plus scores in the format across a long span
T20I highest score: 122*, a majestic knock where timing eclipsed muscle
Multiple T20 World Cup tournament awards and a body of knockout-stage runs

IPL records that anchor a league

The IPL is its own country and Kohli is its most permanent resident. He is the only player to have appeared for a single franchise throughout, becoming the all-time leading run-scorer and the first to cross 8,000 runs. The code for this tally is not brute six-hitting. It is a premium on early-overs risk, high repetition of good options, and enough late-innings release to keep his strike rate in the contest.

Seasonal peaks and centuries

Most runs in a single IPL season: 973, including four hundreds in that campaign
IPL centuries: 8, the most by any player
Orange Cap seasons: multiple, including the 973 season and a later campaign where he topped the aggregate again
Career strike rate in the IPL: in the mid 130s, lately boosted by an uptick in powerplay sixes and greater access to slog-sweep and lap variants

Venue and match-up cues

Bengaluru, Chinnaswamy: his home amphitheatre, small boundaries and fast turf magnify his timing and his running between the wickets
Mumbai, Wankhede and Navi Mumbai: true surfaces that let him live on the rise
Against spin: the phase where he preserves wicket value, then releases with inside-out lofts over extra cover as the ball ages

IPL records summary

All-time leading run-scorer, first past 8,000
Most centuries in the IPL: 8
Best single-season run tally: 973
Multiple Orange Cap seasons
Playoff runs that include long, anchoring innings and a few late cameos when the top order has rolled

Milestone tracker and fastest-to marks

Kohli’s milestone timeline is one of relentless acceleration. For ODI runs, he has been the quickest bus from one station to the next across the big thresholds from eight thousand upwards. For hundreds, he climbed past forty into fifty with intent. This progression is not simply a matter of fitness and selection; it required plate-by-plate recalibration of his mechanics.

Adjusted back-lift to guard against the two-piece wobble
Earlier trigger against high-pace new ball in SENA countries
Wider stance when the ball is older to allow stable base during aerial releases
Eliminated the drive-at-anything instinct in corridors where the ball could deviate late

The result is a numbers sheet that reads like a metronome. ODI run-milestone fastest marks, ODI hundred frequency that surpasses every previous great, and a ribbon of T20I fifty-plus scores that stretches across tournaments and continents.

Awards, accolades and the complete cricketer’s file

Kohli’s trophy shelf is not an accident. It mirrors the scale of his work.

ICC player awards across formats
Player of the tournament in the ODI World Cup edition of 765 runs
Multiple T20 World Cup tournament awards
A large tally of player-of-the-match gongs in ODIs and T20Is, among the highest in both formats
Wisden and other traditional honours that tend to require more than flash-in-the-pan impact

The fielding ledger is not trivial either. He has been an elite ground fielder from the day he walked in. Sprint speed, hands in front of the eyes, and a release that is both quick and accurate combine with an aggression that changes singles into hazards. At slip to spinners in Tests he keeps a low, two-step crouch and rides the ball into soft hands, adding a quiet stack of important catches to his captaincy years.

Vs-team and vs-bowler storylines that define the edge

Vs Australia

Kohli’s aggression sharpens in the Australian rivalry. In ODIs the pull-shot remains an option of dominance rather than survival. In Tests, especially in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth games, his back-foot punch through cover has dismantled length plans. Against Mitchell Starc at the peak of white-ball swing, he countered by moving his contact point fractionally later, allowing the line to declare itself; against Pat Cummins, the trust in leaving on the sixth-stump line grew as the innings lengthened. The centuries he has piled against Australia are not soft. They are fought and then enjoyed.

Vs Pakistan

He has been the giant of India–Pakistan white-ball occasions. The Asia Cup 183 and the Melbourne World T20 82* sit as bookends for a career of binary-cold finishing. Against Shaheen Afridi, he has alternated his lines, refusing to let a left-arm angle pin him on off stump. Against Haris Rauf under lights, that straight six was the audacious choice of a batter seeing the speed and the length in slow motion.

Vs England

In England, he built his game patiently. The early away cycle was a lesson in what-not-to-chase. Once he reset, his front-foot press grew smaller, his head stayed over off stump longer, he covered late swing with suppressed hands, and he decorated scoreboard pressure with judicious risk only when the bowlers overpitched. His hundreds in that landscape are case studies in modern technique under the Dukes ball.

Vs South Africa

Fast pitches and steep bounce presented early exams. He passed them with the two most important assets in those conditions: repeatability of compact defence and violence only on his terms. Later cycles show the improvement in his back-and-across trigger and his decision to play late, especially against Kagiso Rabada’s length.

Vs New Zealand and Sri Lanka

Against New Zealand, he has built ODI hundreds that begin with tight leaves to Tim Southee and then punish any trunk-line drift. Against Sri Lanka, he has owned chases. When the target is anywhere from 240 to 320, he reads the field with the confidence of a point guard, orchestrating singles like passes, then crushing anything full of a length.

Venue-wise records and favorite grounds

Adelaide Oval

Everything about Adelaide suits Kohli: the sightlines, the even but lively bounce, and the outfield that rewards modifiers of pace off the bat. The cover drive feels inevitable here. Many of his hundreds at this ground build through a period where he beats extra cover at will and then moves into hit-hard but grounded straight drives.

Wankhede Stadium

The ball flies here. The pitch is true and the square boundaries are drag-race lanes for his bottom-hand acceleration. When he paces a long ODI inning at this venue, watch the phase between the thirtieth and fortieth overs. He upgrades singles to twos with brutal clarity, and he finds the back-of-a-length pull into the crowd as the first crossing into six-land.

Eden Gardens

At Eden, the match atmosphere matters. It is a theatre, and Kohli tends to deliver. The lines here are about patience. He enjoys going from 40 to 75 without a single sweep, and then launching late if required.

Chinnaswamy Stadium

Home. The smallest misfields become twos. The loft over extra-cover lands five rows back even when mishit. The record here blends hundred-making patience with the knowledge that momentum is always one good over away.

The Chasing Index

Kohli in pursuit is the clearest value proposition in white-ball cricket. If you were to build a Kohli Chasing Index, it would blend the following factors: target size, wickets lost at entry, bowling quality, pitch difficulty, and innings acceleration rate between overs 30 and 45. By that measure, these knocks would top the index.

Hobart 133* vs Sri Lanka in a must-win calculation-chase where he pulled the death bowling system apart
Mirpur 183 vs Pakistan, steep ask benchmarked by quality powerplay bowling
Melbourne 82* vs Pakistan in T20 World Cup, highest degree of difficulty on context and skill execution
Mohali 82* vs Australia in T20I, surgical dismantling of a death attack without uncontrolled risks
Pune 122 vs England in ODIs, a masterclass in thwarting movement and then maximising at the death
Kandy 131* vs Sri Lanka where he won the game in the middle overs by targeting his areas relentlessly
Visakhapatnam 115* vs South Africa, humane but cold chase with perfect tempo

Captaincy records that withstand scrutiny

In Tests, Kohli took over a young, fast-bowling-centred side and turned aggression into structure. The outcomes are clear.

Most Test wins by an India captain, a figure built on fortress-level home dominance and brave away picks that often included five-bowler combinations
Series wins overseas that traditionally required attrition, backed by slips catching units he insisted on drilling obsessively
Uncompromising fitness culture that turned the outfield into a weapon during long days

In ODIs and T20Is, he captained through transition phases, sometimes balancing his own anchor role with the need for batting depth and bowling variety. His ODI win percentage stands among the best for India captains with fifty-plus matches. He ceded with grace, and his batting after leadership duties eased did not lose its bite; if anything he rediscovered the purity of his personal duel with bowlers.

Phase-of-play intelligence and batting science

Kohli’s record is supported by batting science most fans may feel but not articulate.

Powerplay approach in ODIs: low false-shot percentage, boundary rate modest by modern opening standards but compensated by elite strike rotation. He keeps dot-ball pressure off his partner, often letting a more explosive striker take the lead
Middle overs (11–40): the realm he owns. High control percentage, seamers forced to go very straight or very wide, spinners strangled by the threat of the hard sweep only when length is wrong. He produces a high number of twos with one of the best pair-running practices modern cricket has seen
Death overs: selective aggression, especially in ODIs where he trusts the loft over extra-cover and the heave over midwicket only once the target is under his thumb
T20 powerplay: recently expanded six-hitting arc, with improved pick-up over long-on and a more frequent early slog-sweep to break leg-spin rhythm
T20 death: targeted match-up hunting, especially against pace-off bowlers where his baseball-styled wrist hinge produces flat trajectory hits

Fielding and catching are not mere supplements; they are an ethos. Kohli adds five to seven runs saved on many nights just by cutting angles, and his throw from the deep often reaches on an ideal bounce, denying an extra. In Tests, as a slipper to spin, he reads trajectory early and takes in front of the body, reducing fumbles.

Frequently searched facts on Virat Kohli records

International centuries: 80
ODI hundreds: 50
T20I hundreds: 1
Test hundreds: 29
Highest scores: ODI 183, Test 254*, T20I 122*
Most ODI hundreds in chases: yes
Most runs in a single ODI World Cup edition: 765
First batter to 8,000 IPL runs, most IPL centuries with 8
Most Test wins by an India captain: yes
Multiple ICC player-of-the-tournament awards across major events
Long list of player-of-the-match and player-of-the-series awards in ODIs and T20Is

Virat Kohli ke records: Hindi and Hinglish capsule

Virat Kohli ke sabhi records ka core hai consistency. International centuries total 80, jisme ODI me 50, Test me 29 aur T20I me 1
ODI me sabse zyada centuries chase karte hue. Successful run-chases me unka average bahut high
ODI World Cup ke ek edition me sabse zyada runs, 765, aur us edition ka Player of the Tournament
IPL me sabse zyada runs, pehle player jinhone 8,000 cross kiye. IPL centuries 8, sabse zyada
Test me 7 double hundreds, highest 254*, average around 50. India ke sabse successful Test captain
T20Is me average around 50, strike rate high 130s, sabse zyada 50-plus scores
Virat Kohli ka sabse bada score ODI me 183, Test me 254*, T20 me 122*. Fielding aur fitness culture me bhi unka record top-notch

How this records hub is structured

This page functions as the central hub for Virat Kohli records. From here, readers can branch into specific spokes for deeper cuts

ODI records and milestones: hundreds, fastest-to marks, chasing splits, opposition and venue analysis, and a time-line of hundreds
Test records: home-away splits, SENA analysis, double hundreds, fourth-innings dossier, captaincy win matrix
T20I records: strike-rate by phase, T20 World Cup portfolio, chasing blueprint
IPL records: season-by-season archive, Orange Cap campaigns, centuries, playoffs output, venue and match-up maps
ICC tournaments: ODI World Cup, T20 World Cup, Champions Trophy and Asia Cup track records, including man-of-the-match awards
Vs-team and venue pages: Australia, Pakistan, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka; Adelaide, Wankhede, Eden Gardens, Chinnaswamy and more
Milestone tracker: fastest to runs, centuries timeline, and what comes next
Awards and captaincy: comprehensive lists of ICC awards, MoM and MoS tallies, captaincy numbers

Downloadable assets such as a PDF list of Virat Kohli centuries, venue-wise charts and CSV snapshots of split data are linked from the spokes, giving fans and analysts shareable, citable references.

Records by batting position, phase and role

The number three slot has been his home in ODIs and T20Is. From that vantage, he sees both the new ball and the first spin partnership. His records as a No. 3 batter are elite by every measure.

Average and hundred frequency at No. 3 in ODIs rank among the best ever
First-innings setting versus second-innings chasing split shows a higher average in chases, with more centuries logged in pursuits
Powerplay scoring at No. 3 reveals a bias toward control over volatility, a feature that underwrites the innings length he often achieves
Middle overs conversion rate to fifty-plus stands out like a lighthouse in a fog of dot balls for most batters at that slot

The bowler match-up board shows the discipline that made these splits possible.

High success against left-arm pace that slants across him, achieved by holding lines and allowing the ball to get under the eyes before the final decision
Stable options against wrist-spin, including late bat changes for the single and premeditated inside-out loft only when length is wrong
Aggression toggle against off-spin when the field packs the leg side, using late cuts to third and the drop-kick over long-on to force mid-on back

Asia Cup and Champions Trophy strands

Tournament cricket has often acted as Kohli’s amplifier. His Asia Cup collection features both ODI and T20 runs, including the T20I 122* that doubled as a release after a lean patch. In the Champions Trophy, his best work came in the knockout surge phases where he kept risk response modest while shifting scoring channels every two overs. These tournaments matter for reputational gravity, and his numbers have always matched the weight of the shirt.

Captaincy tone and tactical signatures

As captain, Kohli built a bowl-first or chase-first instinct in white-ball cricket, co-signed by his personal strength as a chaser. In Tests, he installed the five-bowler template whenever depth allowed, trusting the batting to hold while the bowling won the game. He gave spinners attacking fields even outside the subcontinent, a choice that demanded trust in catchers and was rewarded with sessions that broke games open. Over rates, fitness standards, and fielding intent tracked upward under his watch.

Comparisons and the larger context

Kohli vs Sachin Tendulkar records

The comparison is inevitable. Tendulkar’s ocean of runs flowed across decades, opening the ball to the world; Kohli’s mountain of impact has been sculpted during an era of higher scoring rates and more formats. Kohli now leads the ODI hundreds chart, with a better ODI average and strike rate, and he chased totals with a consistency that is algorithm-breaking. Tendulkar’s Test volume and range remain monumental; Kohli’s Test oeuvre achieved a different balance by being the champion of an era of shared responsibilities amid deep bowling rotations. Both built empires; Kohli’s frontier expansion took the ODI and T20I kingdoms into new administrative districts.

Kohli vs Rohit Sharma records

Rohit’s burst of T20I six-hitting and his second wind as an ODI opener produced their own empire. Kohli’s edge remains the consistency, the average, and the chase reliability. As a pair, they form the defining modern alliance of India’s white-ball cricket. Across the IPL, Rohit’s titles parameter and Kohli’s run mountain stack different types of achievement.

Kohli vs Babar Azam records

Babar’s classical template mirrors early Kohli in aesthetics. Kohli holds the lead in volume, chase records, and multi-format longevity. Babar tracks close on ODI average and pace, with future headroom. The comparison has become a modern derby but the sample size favors Kohli’s decade-plus of top-tier output.

Kohli vs Root, Smith, Williamson records

The Big Four conundrum will survive every retiree’s speech. Smith owns the Test batting peak in average; Root’s red-ball run machine feels limitless; Williamson’s classical calm matches Kohli’s across conditions. Kohli brings unmatched all-format balance. His ODI supremacy and T20I consistency tilt the all-format scales his way.

A note on data and methodology

This hub uses official scorecards, ICC event archives and ball-by-ball logs to generate splits such as powerplay scoring rates, middle-overs control and death-overs acceleration. Venue-wise outputs, vs-bowler passages and chase indices are derived from match-level records and contextual adjustments like pitch ratings and bowling-quality indices. That blend gives a fairer read than raw aggregates alone.

Top-line tables for quick reference

International high-scores and hundreds

Tests: Highest 254*, 29 hundreds, 7 double hundreds
ODIs: Highest 183, 50 hundreds, most hundreds in chases
T20Is: Highest 122*, most fifty-plus scores across a long span, average around fifty

White-ball milestones

Fastest progression to ODI run milestones from 8,000 through 13,000
Fastest to 50 ODI hundreds by innings count
Most runs in a single ODI World Cup edition: 765

IPL milestones

First to 8,000 IPL runs
Most centuries in IPL: 8
Highest single-season run tally: 973
Multiple Orange Cap seasons

What comes next for the record chase

Kohli remains active across formats. The marksmanship suggests more yet.

Increasing the ODI hundreds lead, with any addition consolidating an already historic gap
Expanding the IPL hundreds count from its current peak while guarding strike rate in powerplay against high pace
T20I fifty-plus cushion remains large; selective rests could prolong format longevity without hurting totals
Test hundreds in away SENA cycles to cement the late-stage chapter of his red-ball legacy
Player-of-the-match and player-of-the-series tallies, already among the highest, likely to edge up with each decisive innings

The emotional spine of the record book

Numbers are the trophies. The work is the heartbeat. Kohli’s record looks inevitable when you line it up in a table, but it was not born that way. It came from a willingness to lean into pain, to run harder than most on the third run when no one would blame him for two, to make a day of dot balls feel like a privilege rather than a prison. It is what allowed him to handle pressure in front of crowds that feel like weather systems. The record book we celebrate is a human document. It tells the story of a batter who turned desire into routine and routine into history.

Appendix: explainer notes on key achievements

Why 50 ODI hundreds matters: Separating into halves, the first twenty-five came as the team grew around him, the latter twenty-five landed while opposition analysts poured hours into his patterns. The second half is the larger miracle
Why 765 in a single ODI World Cup matters: Tournament fatigue, travelling formats, varied surfaces and front-line attacks make such consistency hard. To average huge and strike at a healthy clip under that burden is elite
Why 8 IPL hundreds matter: T20 hundreds are rare; they demand acceleration without early dismissals. To string eight of them across seasons is basically a programmer’s defiance of variance
Why seven Test doubles matter: Big hundreds demand day-long discipline and late-innings mental oxygen. That he kept doing it with pace attacks hammering at his body shows a refusal to consent to good-enough

Records in finals and knockouts

Kohli’s narrative in finals and semifinals is richer than a surface read. He has multiple fifty-plus scores in ODI and T20I knockout games. In some finals he held the innings together without exploding, at times handing the baton to a late-order hitter. In others, he shouldered the load, playing the accumulator and the sporadic hitter, adjusting to the stage rather than forcing it. The record includes man-of-the-match medals and more than a handful of podium nights where his numbers look neat only because the labour that produced them was nearly invisible.

Virat Kohli records list, condensed

80 international centuries across formats
Most ODI hundreds, 50
Fastest to successive ODI run miles from 8,000 to 13,000
Most runs in a single ODI World Cup edition, 765
Most ODI centuries in chases
Test double hundreds, 7, highest score 254*
T20I average around 50, most fifty-plus scores across a long span, highest 122*
IPL all-time top run-scorer, first past 8,000, most IPL hundreds with 8, highest single-season aggregate 973
Captaincy: most Test wins by an India captain
Long list of ICC and tournament awards and one of the highest MoM and MoS tallies in ODIs and T20Is

Legacy and the living pursuit

The temptation is to call him complete. That word is too final. Kohli’s records read like a skyline, not a finished monument. There are spires he will raise a little higher. There are new angles to old grounds he will discover. The best part is that the way he plays keeps showing young batters something worth imitating. The straight bat through cover. The single to midwicket where two felt impossible. The conviction that a chase is a puzzle with an answer, if you just keep working the edges. The record book is secure. The hunger that built it still burns.