Every time Virat Kohli walks in to bat, it appears that he is in on the verge of another record. And now the lad from Delhi has the chance to go past the greatest batsman of all time – Don Bradman.
Every time Virat Kohli walks in to bat, it appears that he is in on the verge of another record. And now the lad from Delhi has the chance to go past the greatest batsman of all time – Don Bradman.
So far, Kohli has scored 870 runs on this tour of 13 innings and if he manages 104 more in there remaining two T20s, he will move past Don Bradman’s record of 974 runs scored in five Tests in England in 1930, which is the second-highest number of runs scored by a batsman on a tour.
However, if he scores 130 more, he will move into a very special class of his own. The only man to ever score more than 1000 runs on a single tour is the great Sir Viv Richards who during the West Indies’ 1976 tour of England made 1045 runs (829 in four Tests, 216 runs in three ODIS).
In the ongoing tour of South Africa so far, Kohli has notched up 870 runs, including seven sixes and 91 boundaries, from 13 innings he played at an average of 87.00 and a strike rate of 82.38.
The 29-year-old ended the ODI series against South Africa with 558 runs, becoming the first batsman ever to score 500 runs in a bilateral ODI series.
Kohli struck three centuries in the six-match series and is the only Indian to notch up three tons in a bilateral series.
After clinching a comfortable win in the opening match, India will look to continue their winning spree and seal three-match T20I series when they take on South Africa in the second match here at the SuperSport Park on Wednesday.
Coming on the back of their historic ODI series win over South Africa 5-1, the Virat Kohli-led side continued their rich vein of form as they registered a convincing 28-run win over in the opening T20I to take a 1-0 lead in Johannesburg.
Now, the Men in Blue will aim to wrap-up the three-match T20I series heading into the second match.
South Africa, on the other hand, would aim to bounce back to keep themselves alive in the series.
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The two squads are as follows:
India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (c), Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal
South Africa: Reeza Hendricks, Jon-Jon Smuts, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy (c), David Miller, Farhaan Behardien, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Christiaan Jonker, Chris Morris, Andile Phehlukwayo, Junior Dala, Dane Paterson, Aaron Phangiso.
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