Virat Kohli celebrates his birthday today, and the cricket world once again stands in admiration of his hunger, discipline, mindset and consistency. Many batters in this sport have delivered joy, many have produced magical one-innings moments, but nobody in the modern cricket generation has shown the level of dominance across all formats, countries, generations and pressure situations the way Virat Kohli has. That is why he is called “King Kohli”.
On the occasion of his birthday, here are eighteen special records that prove Kohli’s greatness is not normal, it is once-in-a-generation and maybe once-in-cricket-history.
Major records of Virat Kohli
1. Highest ODI average among players who have scored 10,000+ ODI runs.
2. Fastest to 8,000, 9,000, 10,000, 11,000, and 12,000 ODI runs.
3. Most ODI centuries while chasing (28); no one in world cricket is even close to this level of chase dominance.
4. One of the highest success rates for India in run-chases — when the target is under pressure, Kohli delivers and India wins.
5. Only batter in cricket history to maintain a 50+ average simultaneously in Tests, ODIs, and T20Is for several years.
6. International century leader of this modern era with 82 hundreds across formats.
7. First and only Indian batter to hit 3 ODI hundreds in chases in one bilateral series.
8. Most ODI Player of the Series awards for India, proving match-impact beyond just runs.
9. Only cricketer in the world to score 20,000+ international runs in a single decade (2010–2019).
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10. Most 50+ scores in ICC white-ball tournaments for India.
11. Most 50s in ODI chases — nobody worldwide comes near to this combined chase supremacy.
12. Most Man of the Match awards in ICC white-ball tournaments combined (World Cup + T20 World Cup + Champions Trophy)
13. Most followed Indian athlete and cricketer on Instagram with 273+ million followers.
14. Most international runs outside Asia by an Asian batter, with 9,000+ runs across SENA conditions.
15. First Asian captain to win a Test series in Australia.
16. Fastest batter in history to reach 75 international centuries.
17. Highest average in successful ODI run chases (60+ with 1,000+ chase runs).
18. Most ICC major tournament runs in the 21st century across World Cups, Champions Trophy, and T20 World Cups.
These rare achievements reflect the era Kohli built consistency became normal, fitness became culture, and pressure became opportunity. He changed not just Indian cricket standards, he changed modern cricket benchmarks altogether. There are legends. There are greats. And then there is Virat Kohli, the man who made chasing look simple and excellence look routine.
Happy Birthday King Kohli.
Written By:- Manjunath S