How VIRAT KOHLI became No.1 Batsman in World??
Virat Kohli on top of the world
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Virat Kohli jumps past Steve Smith to become the seventh Indian to become the No.1 Test batsman in the world.
Virat Kohli has achieved another personal milestone by becoming the seventh India batsman and first since Sachin Tendulkar in June 2011, to top the MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen, which were released on Sunday morning following the conclusion of the Edgbaston Test.
Kohli scored 149 and 51 in India’s 31-run defeat and has gone up by 31 points, which have helped him to end Steve Smith’s 32-month reign as the top-ranked batsman and reach the top of the summit for the first time in his 67-Test career.
Kohli now leads Smith (who had held the top spot since December 2015) by five points, but will have to maintain the form in the remaining four Tests to finish the series as the world’s highest-ranked batsman.
Tendulkar had joined South Africa’s Jacques Kallis in number-one position in January 2011, but had dropped to second spot following the Jamaica Test in June 2011 after he had missed the three-Test series against the West Indies.
Apart from Kohli and Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Gautam Gambhir, Sunil Gavaskar, Virender Sehwag and Dilip Vengsarkar are the other India batsmen to have achieved number-one rankings during their careers.
However, at 934 points, Kohli has become India’s highest-ranked batsman, 14th overall, on the all-time tally of points. Kohli had entered the Edgbaston Test on 903 points, 13 points behind Gavaskar, and is now ahead of the ICC Cricket Hall of Famer by 18 points.
If Kohli can deliver another strong performance in the second Test at Lord’s, then he can break into the top-10 by leapfrogging Matthew Hayden, Kallis and AB de Villiers, whose highest points tally was 935 each. Donald Bradman (961) and Steve Smith (947) are the two batsmen sitting on top of this exclusive list.
Kohli, who powered India to the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup title in 2008 and then won the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year in 2017, is the 76th player to top the Test batting rankings. He is also the number-one ranked ODI batsman, but is ranked 12th in T20Is, 220 points behind number-one ranked Aaron Finch of Australia.
MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings (as on 5 August, following Edgbaston Test)
BATSMEN (top 20)
Rank (+/-) Player Team Points Avge Highest Rating
1 (+1) Virat Kohli Ind 934! 54.28 934 v Eng at Edgbaston 2018
2 (-1) Steve Smith Aus 929 61.37 947 v SA at Durban 2018
3 ( - ) Joe Root Eng 865 52.18 917 v Aus at Trent Bridge 2015
4 ( - ) Kane Williamson NZ 847 50.35 893 v Aus at Perth 2015
5 ( - ) David Warner Aus 820 48.20 880 v NZ at Perth 2015
6 ( - ) C. Pujara Ind 791 50.34 888 v SL at Nagpur 2017
7 ( - ) D. Karunaratne SL 754! 37.28 754 v SA at Colombo (SSC) 2018
8 ( - ) D. Chandimal SL 733 44.96 755 v Win at St Lucia 2018
9 ( - ) Dean Elgar SA 724 41.05 784 v Aus at Johannesburg 2018
10 ( - ) Aiden Markram SA 703* 47.27 759 v Aus at Johannesburg 2018
11 ( - ) Ross Taylor NZ 697 47.22 871 v Win at Hamilton 2013
12= ( - ) Kraigg Brathwaite Win 695 37.94 701 v Eng at Headingley 2017
(+4) Jonny Bairstow Eng 695 38.64 772 v SA at Old Trafford 2017
14 ( - ) Hashim Amla SA 673 47.23 907 v Pak at Abu Dhabi 2013
15 ( - ) Azhar Ali Pak 672 44.84 787 v Aus at Melbourne 2016
16 (+1) Faf du Plessis SA 665 42.33 734 v Ind at Centurion 2018
17 (-4) Alastair Cook Eng 658 45.36 874 v Ind at Kolkata 2012
18 (+2) Kusal Mendis SL 641 36.78 693 v Win at St Lucia 2018
19 (-1) Lokesh Rahul Ind 634 39.20 761 v SL at Pallekele 2017
- 20 (+1) Usman Khawaja Aus 633 42.00 747 v Pak at Sydney 2017
List of international cricket centuries by Virat KohliList of international cricket centuries by Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer and the captain of the men's national team as of March 2019. A right-handed top order batsman, Virat Kohli has made 66 centuries in international cricket—25 in Test cricket and 41 in One Day Internationals (ODIs)—as of March 2019, the third-most, behind Sachin Tendulkar (100) and Ricky Ponting (71).In a 2013 interview, former West Indian cricketerVivian Richards described Kohli as someone whose batting reminds him of himself.
Kohli made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka in August 2008 and scored his first century the following year when he made 107 against the same team at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. His 86-ball 133 not out against Sri Lanka in February 2012 led India to the second highest run-chase by any team in Australia. Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones described the innings as "one of the greatest ODI knocks of all time". Kohli's highest score of 183 came against Pakistan during the 2012 Asia Cup; India successfully chased a target of 330 set by Pakistan and Kohli was adjudged man of the match. Following that in 2013, he made his first century as a captain while playing against the West Indies in a tri-nation tournament. In the bilateral series against Australia in October 2013, Kohli made two centuries in successful run-chases. The first of the two, 100 not out, was scored off 52 balls and remains the fastest ODI century by an Indian.he next century, which came off 61 balls, remains the third-fastest by an Indian as of March 2019.n ODIs, 25 of his 41 centuries have come in the second innings and India have lost only seven ODIs when he has made a century. As of March 2019, Kohli has the most ODI centuries for an active player and is behind Tendulkar (49) on the all time list.
Kohli made his Test debut against the West Indies in 2011 and scored his first century in the format during the Australian tour in January 2012.In the first Test of the 2014–15 Border–Gavaskar Trophy, he became the fourth Indian player to score centuries in both the innings of a Test match after making 115 and 141 respectively. He was appointed as the captain of the Test team during the series and became the first player to score centuries in each of his first three Test innings as captain. In 2016, Kohli became the fifth player to score three or more double centuries in a calendar year. The following year, he repeated the feat by scoring three double centuries, including a career-best 243 against Sri Lanka. As of March 2019, he has the most double centuries (6) by a captain.Fourteen of his twenty five Test centuries have been scored at venues outside India. In 2017, he became the first captain to score ten centuries across all formats of international cricket in a calendar year. Since his debut T20 International (T20I) match in 2010, Kohli is yet to score a century in the format; his highest score of 90 not out was against Australia in 2016.
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