Virat Kohli registered a novel record as quickly as he was named the player of the match in the fourth Test towards Australia on Monday. The particular factor is that earlier than him no cricketer in the world has been ready to achieve this. In the Border-Gavaskar Trophy recreation at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, Kohli ended the lengthy look forward to a century in Test cricket by taking part in a superb innings of 186 runs.Â
Kohli was awarded the Player of the Match award for the tenth time in Test cricket. Apart from this, he has received this award 38 occasions in ODIs and 15 occasions in T20 Internationals. Kohli has now turn out to be the only player to win the Player of the Match award 10 or extra occasions in all three codecs.
“The expectations that I have for myself as a player are more important to me,” Kohli stated after being adjudged Player of the Match.
“I am not in a space now where I will go out and prove someone wrong. I also need to justify why I am there on the field,” he added.
“I think in Test cricket I wasn’t able to play with my tempo and template that I have played with for the last 10 years for a while now. So that was the one thing I was trying to do. I felt like I was batting really well from the first innings in Nagpur.”
Most Player of the Match in Tests
- Jacques Kallis – 23
- Muttiah Muralitharan – 19
- Wasim Akram – 17
- Shane Warne – 17
- Kumar Sangakkara – 16
Most Player of the Match in ODIs
- Sachin Tendulkar – 62
- Sanath Jayasuriya – 48
- Virat Kohli – 38
- Jacques Kallis – 32
- Ricky Ponting – 32
Most Player of the Match in T20Is
- Virat Kohli – 15
- Mohammad Nabi – 13
- Rohit Sharma – 12
- Suryakumar Yadav – 11
- Mohammad Rizwan – 11
In the match, Virat scored 186 runs off 364 deliveries at a strike charge of 51.10 and smashed 15 boundaries. He was dismissed by Todd Murphy after a formidable batting.
