At that rate, he was primed to overtake Tendulkar’s all-time record of 49 ODI centuries by now. Barring 20, Kohli was scoring at least four ODI centuries every year since 2011. Now that batting order is in transition again, but Kohli’s numbers aren’t as emphatic. The initial markers-be it scoring his maiden Test century in Adelaide, or kicking off his first Test in South Africa with a hundred or chasing down Australia’s 289 with a well-compiled 118 in only his third year of international cricket-too foretold of a batting polymath in the making at a time India’s middle-order was in slow transition. It’s this doggedness that drove Kohli to a manic levels of consistency so early in his career-fifth fastest to 7,000 Test runs, fastest ever to 12,000 ODI runs, most T20I player of the series awards (7) and the highest ever T20I average (52.04). His shorter-format batting is an extension of this philosophy. That imperious cover drive is emblematic of his genius but Kohli’s batting is more an incremental overpowering of the bowling through time-honoured methods of blunting the ball, playing in the V and running hard between the wickets. An average of over fifty across formats already lends an impregnable aura to Kohli’s record.
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