Virat Kohli smashed all the records, Team India end 2017 as the most successful

2017 turned out to be a brilliant year for Team India. The national teams reached new heights in every other sport as well but the Indian Cricket Team overshadowed everything. It has a to do with the invincibility with throughout the last year and a half.

On one hand, India hosted and participated in its first ever FIFA event while Virat Kohli & Co. demolished yet another team in Tests to go number one. There were shuttlers soaring new heights while Virat Kohli was busy crushing records older than this generation. India’s snooker artist, Pankaj Advani sealed his 18th title while Rohit Sharma became the only human being to score three ODI double tons.

There were wrestlers and boxers rewriting history while the Indian cricketers surpassed this or that record, constantly grabbing the headlines. This Indian team is arguably the best the sub-continent has seen. There is fight, unity, aggression, commitment, temperament, talent, and passion filled in every player that dons the Indian jersey. Their captain, however, is on a different level.

Virat Kohli’s 2017

Virat’s 2017 can be summed up in one word; record-breaking. He has broken records that stood for over decades. He has scaled heights which were considered too high for cricketers of the modern era. Kohli has made batting look easy. Indian cricket circled around the big four for the last couple of decades but now it has only one person at the centre and that is this man.

Kohli surpassed Don Bradman and Brian Lara who had scored the most number of double centuries as captains. He achieved the feat when he scored four consecutive double centuries. His batting skills are just getting better and the result has earned him a comparison with the god of cricket himself. He scored 1059 runs in this calendar year at an average of 75 runs per inning.

His highest score in Test cricket this year was 243 against Sri Lanka. His One-Day International stats are even better, he has scored 1460 runs in 26 games. He averages a stupendous 76.84, his strike rate is almost 100 and the number of centuries is six.

He has also scored 7 half centuries and earned himself three Man of the Match awards and one Man of the Series award. To add to that, he recently got married to his long-time girlfriend as well, try comparing your 2017 to his.