Stats: Virat Kohli's winning streaks in numbers

India continued to set new benchmarks under captain Virat Kohli as they registered their 8th consecutive ODI win and their 11th win in as many games across all formats. The 11-match streak is India’s longest ever in International cricket as they never won ten games in a row across formats earlier.

Kohli became the 1st Indian captain to register ten International wins in succession after their win in the Chennai ODI and extended it to 11 with a big win at Kolkata against the Aussies. The win in the 2nd ODI took Kohli’s winning streak to eight in the ODI format which is the 3rd such streak in his 37-match captaincy career. Prior to Kohli’s first ODI as captain in 2013, only Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni had a streak eight or more consecutive wins in ODIs.

With his 3rd streak of eight consecutive wins, Kohli became only the 2nd captain after Ricky Ponting to scale eight and more consecutive ODI wins on three different occasions. Ponting has four such streaks to his name with all of them being more than nine games. Hansie Cronje and Clive Lloyd come close to Kohli and Ponting as Cronje had two streaks of 8+ wins and a streak of seven consecutive wins while Lloyd had two streaks of seven consecutive ODI wins and two streaks of 8+ wins.

Captains with three streaks of 8+ consecutive ODI wins:

Earlier in the first ODI at Chennai, Virat completed 50 wins as captain in International cricket with 28 ODI wins, 19 Test wins and three in the T20I format all in just 70 matches. Thus he became the 2nd quickest in terms of matches required to complete 50 wins in International cricket. Ponting was the quickest to the milestone as he needed only 63 games.

Fewest matches needed for the 50th International win as captain:

(Stats as on September 21, 2017)