Virat Kohli Batting Records: Where Do We See Indian Cricketer Five Years From Now, How Many Runs & Centuries Will He Score?

Indian Skipper Virat Kohli recently scaled the best ever tally at the ICC One Day ranking charts for an Indian batsman amassing 909 points. Such has been the aura of the talismanic batsman that we are all now falling short of superlatives to describe his batting. Kohli has been dominating all three formats of cricket like no other batsmen scoring runs for fun. In fact, the burden of captaincy has helped the Delhi batsmen evolve as a premier cricketer and there is certainly no stopping Virat Kohli. Virat Kohli is Better Than Sachin Tendulkar at This Point in Time, Stats Prove it!

Backed by an impeccable batting technique and an amazing hunger for success, the results are for all of us to see. Close to ten thousand ODI runs in just 208 matches with 35 centuries sees him dominate the 50 over format like no other player. He is the second highest run-getter with 1983 runs in T20s  and also has five thousand odd runs in Tests for India. Looking at Virat’s career through numbers, the stats paint a very rosy picture.

Virat Kohli’s Batting Records Till India’s Tour of South Africa 2018

We decided to look at the future fixtures of the Indian cricket team and through a prediction, mechanism comes up with our own numbers of where the Indian skipper could stand in terms of runs scored in the next five years or so. The data collected from Indian cricket team’s Future Tours Program (FTP) schedule and media sources predict that Indian team is likely to play 46 Tests, 79 ODIs and 63 T20Is in the coming five years.At one of the press meets during the recently concluded India’s Tour of South Africa 2018, Virat stated that he intends to play cricket for the next 7-9 years or so. This has certainly given a great deal of joy to cricket fans around the world. Many records are certain to be broken if the swashbuckling batsman continues his glittering career over the time period stated by him.

Considering the ICC events and a few series when Kohli might be rested we have generated certain data. It has to be noted that these numbers are tentative and may bear no resemblance to what eventually turns out in future. Our predictive analysis is based on these very numbers and lets us see how the scenario looks for Virat Kohli come to the end of the 2023 season.

Predicted Batting Record of Virat Kohli at the End of 2023

Virat Kohli has always been compared to Sachin Tendulkar by fans and media alike and if these numbers turn out to be true, we can say it with certainty that the God of Cricket would be proud of Kohli’s achievement. Close to nine thousand Test runs combined with around thirteen thousand runs in the fifty-over format. Virat should be close to Sachin’s record of most centuries in ODIs and this, believe it or not, with 47 centuries and looking at his glorious form, if he increases his century-per-match conversion by a little margin, by the end of the 2023 season there are possibilities of him coming at par with the Little Master.

The 29-year-old star batsman will also have his sight set on being the leading century-maker in Tests with 34 centuries under his belt. Another distinction wherein Virat will have virtually no competition is most centuries as skipper (provided he remains the captain in future) in International cricket with 64 centuries, more than double than that of Graeme Smith who has 33 to his credit. Here again, Sachin Tendulkar’s 51 Test centuries is the feat that may desert him. In terms of Twenty20 cricket, Virat Kohli will be well around three thousand runs in the format to become the leading run-scorer in T20 Internationals. He is also certain to become the player with the most T20 caps breaking Shahid Afridi’s all-time appearance of 96 for Pakistan.

The bottom line is that sky is the limit for Virat Kohli. The player has the potential to take Indian Cricket Team to heights never scaled in the past. His personal milestones that will be laid in the way would be gigantic and one that could stand for generations. We should all celebrate the champion that is Virat Prem Kohli and hope he is blessed with immense fitness to carry Indian cricket team’s burden in the years to follow.

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