new Delhi. It has been 28 months since Virat Kohli scored a century in international cricket. During this he has played 73 innings. When Kohli arrived for the second Test of the series against Sri Lanka in Bengaluru, it was expected that he would return to what is called his second home. M Chinnaswamy Stadium I will end this drought of centuries. But he could not do so in both the innings. Kohli got out lbw against the spin bowlers in both the innings. He lost his wicket trying to play almost the same shot on both the occasions.
before this, Virat Kohli He was the only batsman in the world, who averaged more than 50 in all three formats of cricket, Test, ODI and T20. Kohli needed a total of 43 runs in Bengaluru to maintain a Test average of 50. But he could score only 36 runs (23 and 13) in both the innings. For this reason his Test average came down to 50. After the Bangalore Test, his average became 49.95. For the first time since August 2017, Kohli’s Test average has fallen below 50.
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Achieved test average of 50 against England
Virat had achieved an average of 50 against England in the 52nd Test of his career. Then he scored 235 runs in the first innings of the Mumbai Test. At the same time, in 2019, Kohli achieved his career-best batting average of 55.10 by scoring 254 runs in the Pune Test against South Africa. But since then he has failed to play big innings. Because of this his batting average started coming down and now he has become less than 50.
Virat Kohli has scored 12311 runs in ODIs at an average of 58.07. Whereas in T20 he has scored 3296 runs at an average of 51.50. Now Kohli will have to wait till July to raise his average above 50 in Tests.
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