With his knock of 52 against the West Indies in the second T20I, Virat Kohli equalled India captain Rohit Sharma's record of most 50+ scores in T20Is.
India batter Virat Kohli was in sublime form against West Indies in the second T20I at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday. After failing to score runs in the three ODIs and the first T20I, Kohli laid the foundation of India's series-clinching win, scoring 52 off 41 balls. With his knock against the West Indies on Friday, Kohli equalled India captain Rohit Sharma's record of most 50+ scores in T20Is.
Virat Kohli’s last half-century in this format came at the T20 World Cup against Pakistan, where he had to delve into every ounce of his class to counter a marauding Shaheen Shah Afridi on a challenging Dubai pitch. With wickets falling at the other end, he didn’t have the leeway to go into attack mode.Both Kohli and Rohit are now tied on 30, but the former has played just 97 matches as compared to the latter, who has played 121 games in the shortest format of the game.
India batter Virat Kohli was in sublime form against West Indies in the second T20I at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday. After failing to score runs in the three ODIs and the first T20I, Kohli laid the foundation of India's series-clinching win, scoring 52 off 41 balls. With his knock against the West Indies on Friday, Kohli equalled India captain Rohit Sharma's record of most 50+ scores in T20Is.
They are followed by Babar Azam (26 in 73 matches), Martin Guptill (26 in 73 matches), David warner (22 in 88 matches)
The 33-year-old, however, fell 4 runs short of surpassing New Zealand's Martin Guptill as the highest run-getter in the T20Is.
With 3,299 runs, Guptill leads the list ahead of Kohli, who has 3,296 runs to his name. Meanwhile, Rohit is third in the list with 3,256 runs in the format.
Throughout his stellar career, former India captain Virat Kholi and Sachin Tendulkar were compared on several occasions.
Kohli's stats and consistency at his best were so impressive that many predicted he would match, if not surpass, Tendulkar's Test and ODI records.
Kholi has always insisted that Tendulkar is one of the greatest cricketers of all time and one of the reasons he started playing cricket, the comparisons have remained anytime Kohli smashed a record held by the Little Master.
Now, the Great Sachin Tendulkar has now weighed in on the subject.
Recently, when Sachin was asked which of the two of them is the best cricketer, in a rapid-fire set of questions, he said in an interview on the YouTube channel, "How about having both of us in one team."
Virat Kohli’s last half-century in this format came at the T20 World Cup against Pakistan, where he had to delve into every ounce of his class to counter a marauding Shaheen Shah Afridi on a challenging Dubai pitch. With wickets falling at the other end, he didn’t have the leeway to go into attack mode..
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