How VIRAT KOHLI became No.1 Batsman in World??

Virat Kohli on top of the world

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

1.   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

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Virat Kohli has scored 66 centuries in Test cricket and One Day Internationals.

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.