Virat Kohli was crossed by Bangladeshi batsman, now he will have to give a strong attack with the bat.
World Test Championship: Virat Kohli, one of the most brilliant batsmen in the world, is not batting at the moment. They are scoring small runs, but they are not able to play big innings for which they are known and recognized. Meanwhile, the situation has become such that Bangladesh’s Mehdi Hasan Miraj has also gone ahead of Virat Kohli. Here we are talking about this cycle of the World Test Championship. Now Mehdi Hasan is ahead of Miraj Kohli in terms of scoring runs.
Joe Root has scored the most runs in the World Test Championship
The batsman who has scored the most runs so far in the World Test Championship 2023.25 is Joe Root, who has 1712 runs, but here we will talk only about Virat Kohli and Mehdi Hasan Miraz. First of all, talking about Mirage, so far in this cycle of the World Test Championship, he has added more than 550 runs in 16 innings of 9 matches. Here his average is 45.16 and he is batting at a strike rate of 54.47. He has played innings of 50 runs 5 times.
Virat Kohli’s figures have been like this till now
Now let us have a look at the statistics of Virat Kohli. Virat Kohli has scored only 538 runs in 12 innings of 7 matches in the ongoing World Test Championship. His average is 48.90 and he is batting at a strike rate of 64.81. He has played innings of 50 runs only four times. He has scored three half-centuries and one century. This means that even in terms of 50 runs, Miraj is currently ahead of Kohli.
Kohli also has a chance to go ahead of Mirage
Virat Kohli has a chance to overtake Mirage again. The second match of the three-match series being played between India and New Zealand is going to start from October 24 in Pune. The special thing is that this is the same ground where Virat Kohli has scored a double century. That means this ground is lucky for them. Anyway, a batsman like Virat Kohli cannot be kept away from big innings for long. Therefore, it is possible that Pune may be the ground where he will have another tremendous innings and he will be seen creating some more new records.
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