Virat Kohli As Captain Tour To South Africa For The First Time In Across Formats For India. India Had Never Win Any Kind Of Series In Proteas Soil. Virat As Player Travels To South Africa In 2012/13 Season, He Scored So Many Runs In Test Series. Almost Got Two Hundreds In Two Innings But Unfortunately Got Out On 119 In First Innings But Got 96 In Second Innings At Johannesburg. Results As Draw In That Match, Adjourned As Player Of The Match For Splendid 215 Runs In That Match. Virat Kohli Looks Totally Different In That Match.
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Did You Know Virat Kohli Got Fifty On His Maiden Odi Game On South Africa Soil In 2011/12. As Batsman He Prominent Number Three In Odi For India Where India Played. In Tough Condition Virat Scored Too Many Runs Under Ms Dhoni Captaincy.
Now The Challenge For Kohli To Score Runs As Well As Lead The Team, And He Done Vey Well In Third Test Match & Whole Odi Series Brilliantly. In 2016 Virat Reached Their Peak Scoring In All Ground Where Played & Win Matches For The Team. In 2018 After Series He Hold His Peak Till End Of That Calendar Year. He Started With South Africa Tour And Ended With Australia Tour By Beating Australia In Odi Series With 2-1.
In 2018 Virat Scored Over 1000 Odi Runs With Six Odi Hundreds & More Than three Fifties. He Not Only Scored Runs But Also Win Trophies Win Series In Overseas Condition. Only In England He Lost Both Odi Series & Test Series.
Did You Know Virat Scored Fastest 1000 Odi Runs In 2018 just Off 11 Innings.
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INDIA TOURED TO SOUTH AFRICA (TEST SERIES)
India To Played Three Test Matches 6 Odi Matches 7/ 3 T20I Matches
After Loosing The Close Test Match Virat & Co Come Back Strongly At Centurion. Virat Got The Fantastic 153 And Took Team To Respectable Score, Although India Couldn't Win That Match And Lost Series With Shame Batting Performance. Only Virat Who Scored More Than 30% Of Total Team Score & No Other Contributed A Little.
With 2-0 Lead South Africa Looks So Confident To Win 3-0 In Johannesburg For Third Match & India Fought Strongly Against Mighty Rabada who Bowls With 140+ Speed & Another One Was Lungi Ngidi Taller & More Effective With Balls.
With Bat Both Captain & Vice Captain Virat Kohli &/ A Rahane Made Partnerships In Both Innings 7 Scored More Than 100 Runs Partnerships. Virat Got Solid 50 + & Rahane Got Solid 50+ In First & Second Innings Respectively. And Win The Third Test.
INDIA BEAT SOUTH AFRICA BY 5-1 IN ODIS
In White Ball Formats Virat Was Extraordinary Till First Odi, And The Two Gems Kuldeep Yadav & Yuzi Chahal (KUL-CHA) Flourishes Beautifully In India's Winning. They Both Picked 33 Wickets At The End Of The Odi Series. Almost 60/% Of The Wickets Taken By Both.
Virat With Bat Got Century In First Match. Faf Du Plesis Also Got Hundred In That Match, India Wins Handsomely By Chasing Under 220, Virat Registered His 33rd Ton , Next To Virat Got His 34TH Ton In Third Odi While India Bat First Set A Target Of 304 For Host.
Virat Scored A Brilliant 160 By Facing 159 Balls Exactly With 100 Strike Rate, At Zero India Lost Rohit Sharma, Both Virat & Dhawan Added 140 Runs Partnership For Second Wicket Played Almost 23 Overs.
160 RUNS
159 BALLS
12 X 04'S (12X4'S = 48 RUNS)
02 X 06'S (02X6'S = 12)
He Took 100 Runs By Singles Doubles & Triples
India Win By 124 Big Margins Both Yuzi & Kuldeep Got 4-4 Wickets Respectively. It Was Kohli's Second Ton In That Odi Series. Then In The Last Match While India Had To Chase 205 At Centurion & Virat Scored Aggressively And Chased Under 33 Overs & Sealed The Trophy By 5-1 Margin. Virat Got 129 Unbeaten By Faced Just 96 Balls And Grabbed Trophy For Nation.
129 RUNS
96 BALLS
19X 4'S (19X4'S = 76)
2X6'S (2X6'S = 12)
88 RUNS OFF BOUNDARIES & JUST 41 RUNS OFF SINGLES & DOUBLES
WHAT A KNOCK THAT WAS
Just Comparing Both The Innings (160 vs 129) What Make Different Condition Is Better In Centurion And He Took The Game AS King The Chase Master 7 160 While Bat First He Came At India Needs Partnership, He Took Time & Made Partnerships With Others.
In That Series Virat Registered Many Of Records.
06 Matches
558 RUNS
186.00 AVERAGE
03 CENTURIES
01 FIFTY
35 X FOURS (35X4'S = 140 RUNS)
06 X SIXES (N6X6'S = 36) MOST IN THAT SERIES
3 MAN OF THE MATCHES
160 HIGHEST SCORE
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* Virat Kohli Got 558 Runs As Captain & As Player It Was The Most Runs In Out Of Asia & Any Series (Bilateral Odi Series).
* Virat Got For The First Time Three Centuries In A Bilateral Odi Series.
*/ Virat Wins His First Overseas Odi Series (SENA CONTRIES)
* Virat Got Three Man Of The Matches In That Series.
* As Captain Virat Win 5 Matches Away From Home By 5-1
* Virat Overall Scored 871 Runs Across Formats In That Tour 9Away From Home It Was His Best)
* In An Odi Series He Got 461 Runs Against Australia In 2013 (His Previous Best At Home)
What A Captain , Captain Of The Decade
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