Srinagar: Team India Superstar Virat Kohli is back to his normal best, crossing the 1000 run mark in a calendar year first time since 2019.
Kohli has started T20 World Cup with a bang. After magical match winning knock against Pakistan, Kohli scored another fifty on Thursday against Netherlands.
This year, Kohli has scored 1,024 runs in 28 matches across 31 innings at an average of 39.38. One century and nine half-centuries have come out of his bat, with the best score of 122*.
He was not able to touch the 1000-run mark in years 2020 and 2021, during which he produced inconsistent form with the bat.
In the year 2020, Virat scored 842 runs in 22 matches across 24 innings at an average of 36.60. In 2021, Kohli scored 964 runs in 24 matches across 30 innings at an average of 37.07.
This year Kohli was able to score his highly-anticipated 71st international ton after a gap of more than 1,000 days.