5 world records broken by Virat Kohli in 2017
2017 was a record-breaking year for Indian captain Virat Kohli. He finished the year as the leading run-getter in international cricket across all formats for the second consecutive year, despite being rested for the limited-overs leg of India's series against Sri Lanka at home.
For the second-consecutive year, he scored over 2,500 runs in international cricket and in the process broke plenty of world records. Aside from the Indian record for the most runs in a calendar year and most runs by an Indian captain in Tests and equaling the record for most Test double centuries by an Indian batsman, he also broke several world records in 2017.
Here are five world records broken by Virat Kohli in 2017:
Most ODI runs as captain in a calendar year
For 10 years, Ricky Ponting held the record for most ODI runs in a calendar year as a captain.
Enter Virat Kohli.
The man who has been breaking records for fun broke another in his first year as full-time ODI captain. 1424 runs was the record that Ricky Ponting created in 2007. Despite not playing India's final ODI series of the year, the three-match home series against Sri Lanka, Kohli broke the former Australian captain's record with consummate ease.
In the 26 ODIs that he played, Kohli scored an unreal 1,460 runs at an average of over 75. It wasn't just the runs that he scored but also the speed at which he got them, on a consistent basis. His strike rate of 99 speaks volumes for the impact that he made in each and every game.
On top of that, he scored six centuries and seven fifties, in the process, helping him go to second place (32) past Ricky Ponting in the list of most ODI centuries, behind only Sachin Tendulkar.
Most Test double centuries as captainMost ODI runs as captain in a calendar year
For 10 years, Ricky Ponting held the record for most ODI runs in a calendar year as a captain.
Enter Virat Kohli.
The man who has been breaking records for fun broke another in his first year as full-time ODI captain. 1424 runs was the record that Ricky Ponting created in 2007. Despite not playing India's final ODI series of the year, the three-match home series against Sri Lanka, Kohli broke the former Australian captain's record with consummate ease.
In the 26 ODIs that he played, Kohli scored an unreal 1,460 runs at an average of over 75. It wasn't just the runs that he scored but also the speed at which he got them, on a consistent basis. His strike rate of 99 speaks volumes for the impact that he made in each and every game.
On top of that, he scored six centuries and seven fifties, in the process, helping him go to second place (32) past Ricky Ponting in the list of most ODI centuries, behind only Sachin Tendulkar.
Most Test double centuries as captain
Despite only getting the full-time Test captaincy in 2015, Virat Kohli has already broken an all-time Test record inside three years.
While his first year as Test skipper yielded no double centuries, his second year saw him score three. In 2017, he scored three more, including back-to-back double centuries against Sri Lanka in India's final Test series of the calendar year. That helped him become only the seventh player in Test history and second Indian after Vinod Kambli to score Test double centuries in consecutive innings.
His double ton at Nagpur helped him go past Brian Lara, who held the world record for most Test double tons as captain. He got his sixth in just 50 innings as captain while Lara took 85 innings for his five double tons. And with the record already in the bag, don't be surprised if he extends his lead.
Fastest to 8000 and 9000 ODI runs
Virat Kohli began the year still looking to get to 8,000 ODI runs. By the end of the year, the Indian captain finished with the world record for the fastest to 8,000 and 9,000 ODI runs, taking both records off of his Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate Virat Kohli.
During the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 semi-final against Bangladesh, Kohli broke the record for being the fastest to score 8,000 ODI runs. He got there in just 175 innings, seven fewer than AB de Villiers took, when he claimed the record in 2015.
Before the end of the year, he had broken the record for being the fastest to 9,000 as well. The Indian captain got to 9,000 runs in just 194 innings, thereby becoming the first batsman to reach that mark inside 200 innings. The previous record of AB de Villiers, which was set in February 2017 against New Zealand was broken by Kohli against New Zealand in Kanpur barely eight months later.
Most centuries as captain in a calendar year
Another Ricky Ponting record that Virat Kohli broke in 2017 was the former's record of most centuries as captain in a calendar year. At the peak of his powers, Ponting claimed the record in 2005 with nine centuries as he finished the year with what was at the time, the most runs by any player in a calendar year.
2017 was the first calendar year in which Kohli was full-time captain of India across all formats. And in his debut year, he broke a 12-year-old record of most centuries by a captain in a calendar year. His first double century of the year against Sri Lanka made him the first captain to score 10 centuries in a calendar year. In the next match, he made it 11 and claimed complete command of the record. In fact, he was just one short of Sachin Tendulkar's all-time record of most centuries in a calendar year.
Despite his incredible exploits, Kohli still fell 15 runs short of Ponting's record for most runs in a calendar year by a captain. But given his incredible recent form, one feels that record might be in threat as well.
Successive century and double century record in Tests
2017 was the year of many firsts for Virat Kohli.
Courtesy of his double century against Bangladesh, he became the first batsman in Test history to score a double century in four successive Test series. No other player has done it in more than three successive series before Kohli's feat, which started in West Indies, then continued against New Zealand and England at home before ending in the one-off Test against Bangladesh.
In the Test series against Sri Lanka, Kohli began with a duck before scoring an unbeaten 104, 213 and 243 in his next three innings. In the process, he became the first international captain to score three successive hundreds in a three-match Test series.
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