Batting great Virat Kohli will become the first Indian cricketer to play in 100 matches in all three formats of the game on Sunday (August 28). The former captain is certain to take the field in the second match of the Asia Cup 2022 against arch-rivals Pakistan at Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
Kohli, 33, has so far played 102 Tests, 262 ODIs and 99 T20Is for India, scoring 8074, 12344 and 3308 runs respectively. The right-handed batter also has 70 international tons (27 in Tests, 43 in ODIs).
India's Group A match at Asia Cup 2022 against Pakistan tonight will be Kohli's 464th overall and 100th T20I. This edition of the continental tournament is being played in the shortest format, corresponding with the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia later this year.
Ross Taylor became the first player in the world to play 100 matches in all three formats. The former New Zealand captain achieved the feat in February 2020. The 38-year-old retired earlier this year after playing 112 Tests, 236 ODIs and 102 T20Is.
Virat Kohli, who last scored a century in November 2019, made his international debut on August 18, 2008 in an ODI against Sri Lanka. He first played a T20I for India on June 12, 2010 against Zimbabwe.
Kohli made his Test debut in 2011.[7] He reached the number one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen for the first time in 2013.[8] He has won Man of the Tournament twice at the ICC World Twenty20 (in 2014 and 2016). He also holds the world record of being the fastest to 23,000 international runs.[9]
Kohli has been the recipient of many awards– most notably the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Men's Cricketer of the Decade): 2011–2020; Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2017 and 2018; ICC Test Player of the Year (2018); ICC ODI Player of the Year (2012, 2017, 2018) and Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World (2016, 2017 and 2018).[10] At the national level, he was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2013, the Padma Shri under the sports category in 2017[11] and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the highest sporting honour in India, in 2018.[12]
In 2016, he was ranked as one of the world's most famous athletes by ESPN[13] and one of the most valuable athlete brands by Forbes.[14] In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[15] In 2020, he was ranked 66th in Forbes list of the top 100 highest-paid athletes in the world for the year 2020 with estimated earnings of over $26 million.
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