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Virat Kohli century in India's third league match,
against West Indies, in the tri-nation series was the second-fastest of
his 14 ODI hundreds - it came off 81 balls. His second fifty took all
of 26 balls, which is the lowest number of balls he has taken to go from
50 to 100. His innings was the best example of how he has mastered the
art of pacing an ODI innings. Stats suggest that he has been one of the
most successful ODI batsmen since his debut in August 2008. Kohli has
aggregated 4345 ODI runs, the third most by any batsman in the last five
years in ODIs. His career strike rate of 86.74 - a healthy one for the
amount of runs he has scored - shows that he has managed to straddle the
two aspects of ODI batting - scoring runs and scoring them fast -
comfortably.
Over the last few years, the scoring rates for a couple of No.3 batsmen
have been questioned, but Kohli has had no such problems. Among those
who have batted in at least 20 innings at No.3 in the last five years,
Kohli's strike rate is the highest.
A look at how Kohli's strike rates move over ten-over blocks of an
innings, reveals a fair bit on how Kohli has a template for building and
finishing his knocks. His innings have generally been characterised by
slow, watchful starts, busy middle periods and explosive ends. This is
corroborated by the progression of his batting strike rate through his
innings. He is at his slowest at the start of an innings - scoring at a
rate of 63.8 in the first ten overs of the innings. He is usually
content in playing himself in during these periods - 71% of the balls he
faces are dots. He hits a boundary only once in 12.4 balls during this
period. In the next ten overs, his dot-ball percentage drops to 52%, but
his boundary rate drops as well, possibly because of the lack of
fielding restrictions.
Virat Kohli's batting stats - over-wise
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Overs
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Inns
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0s
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1s
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4s & 6s
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Runs
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Avg
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Cum avg
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SR
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dot-ball %age
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Balls/boundary
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1 to 10
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70
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778
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193
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89
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704
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10.1
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10.1
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63.8
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71%
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12.4
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11 to 20
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75
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838
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577
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113
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1226
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16.3
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26.4
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76.7
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52%
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14.2
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21 to 30
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52
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534
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580
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77
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1092
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21.0
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47.4
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86.5
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42%
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16.4
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31 to 40
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35
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303
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344
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111
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952
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27.2
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74.6
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117.7
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38%
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7.3
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41 to 50
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18
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75
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93
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52
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371
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20.6
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95.2
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155.2
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31%
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Kohli's batting in the next ten overs (21-30) gives us an insight into
how careful he is in building an innings; it's also an aspect that a
batsman like Rohit Sharma would do well to learn from. Rohit tends to
let his guard down after getting starts and throws his wicket away, but
this doesn't happen with Kohli. This period is when he has taken minimum
risks, hitting boundaries only once in 16.4 balls, the least through
his innings, but still manages to score at 5.2 runs an over - thanks to
the high percentage of singles he takes during this period. Nearly 53%
of the balls he plays during these overs are taken for singles. No
wonder then, Kohli has been dismissed on only 14 occasions between
scores of 30 and 49 (14% of his total innings), the least when compared
with other top No.3 batsmen. The next ten overs are when he breaks free.
His boundaries now come at a much greater rate: one off every 7.3
balls. The last ten overs of his innings are when he is most destructive
- boundaries off every 4.6 balls and only 31% dot balls.
Given the caution Kohli takes at the start of his innings it is obvious
that his strike rate between overs 11 and 30, of 81 - which is quite
healthy in itself - does not rank at the very top among batsmen.
However, Kohli still manages to be among the top-ten batsmen in this
regard. Considering that he has scored almost 500 runs more than the
second batsman in the list, his scoring rate in these overs is certainly
not a big disadvantage. Moreover, India have had bad starts (one down
for less than 20) in 43 of the 93 matches since 2010, when Kohli has
started batting at No.3 or at No.4, demanding a mature, risk-free start
from the batsmen at the crease.
Top batsmen (strike rate) in overs 11 to 30 (min
1000 runs), last five years
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Inns
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Runs
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Avg
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SR
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Dis
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Shane Watson
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52
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1491
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39.23
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90.8
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38
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AB de Villiers
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64
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1819
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69.96
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87.7
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26
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Hashim Amla
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42
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1525
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76.25
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85.7
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20
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Gautam Gambhir
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49
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1575
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60.57
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85.5
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26
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Tillakaratne Dilshan
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55
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1706
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46.10
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83.2
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37
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Yuvraj Singh
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56
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1245
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40.16
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83.0
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31
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Virat Kohli
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78
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2318
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56.63
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81.0
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41
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Mohammad Hafeez
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39
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1045
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37.32
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81.0
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28
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Jacques Kallis
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39
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1196
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62.94
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77.8
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Ricky Ponting
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61
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1576
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41.47
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76.7
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The last 20 overs of the innings are when Kohli makes amends for his
comparatively slow starts. Among batsmen with at least 1000 runs in
these overs, Kohli's strike rate of 126.3 is second only to Shahid
Afridi's. Compare this to the strike rate of 98.8 at which MS Dhoni -
who is arguably the best finisher going around in this format - scores
in these overs. Kohli definitely knows how and when to switch gears. | |
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31-50
(min 1000 runs)
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Batsman
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Inns
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Runs
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Avg
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SR
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Dis
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Shahid Afridi
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61
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1222
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21.82
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135.5
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56
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Virat Kohli
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40
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1323
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49.00
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126.3
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AB de Villiers
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43
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1581
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65.87
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119.7
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Suresh Raina
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73
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1929
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38.58
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116.8
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50
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Kieron Pollard
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46
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1073
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26.31
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115.0
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The most important stat of all is Kohli's contribution in India wins. In
the last five years, no other batsman has scored more in teams' wins
than Kohli. Of Kohli's 14 ODI centuries, 13 have come in wins - the
most hundreds any batsman has scored in wins in the last five years. His
average in these games is among the top five in the last five years.
Kohli has eight centuries in 39 successful chases he has been involved
in. This is already the third-highest by any batsman, and he has taken fewer innings, by far, by any batsman to achieve this.
Top batsmen (Average) in wins (min 40 wins)
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Inns
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Runs
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HS
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Avg
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SR
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AB de Villiers
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44
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14
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2528
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134
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84.26
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105.9
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Hashim Amla
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44
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2969
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150
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74.22
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93.9
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11
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17
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MS Dhoni
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56
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2397
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124
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68.48
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91.3
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Misbah-ul-Haq
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41
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17
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1633
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68.04
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72.5
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Virat Kohli
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63
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14
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3263
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183
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66.59
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90.8
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| What these numbers indicate are that Kohli juggles between the roles of a
No.3 batsman and a finisher quite efficiently - accumulating big runs
that count, and at a rate that helps his team win matches. |
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Shiva Jayaraman is a sub-editor (stats) at ESPNcricinfo
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