5 players with the best 50 to 100 conversion rate of all time in Tests

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#3 Virat Kohli – 58.82%

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Virat Kohli

It seems a regular habit of the current Indian skipper to enter record books. Virat Kohli has been magnificent across all the three formats in the past few years. He established himself as one of the modern-day greats.

Like Elgar, Kohli also came into the limelight after a stellar Under-19 World Cup (in 2008). He made his ODI debut in the same year but he had to wait for 3 years to don the whites.

His career was at crossroads in Australia as he was off to a poor start in Test cricket even. He had scored just 234 runs at an average of 21.27. But with scores of 44, 75 (both at the WACA) and 116 (at Adelaide), he soon cemented his spot in the Test team.

He has been on a roll since then. Currently, he is the only player to average over 50 in all the three formats. In Test cricket, consistency was missing in his game, but he seems to have addressed that very well. Nowadays, once he’s set, a hundred seems inevitable.

His record is a testament to that fact. The last 11 times he’s crossed the 50-run mark, he’s reached 100 on nine occasions and out of those nin occasions, he has converted those hundreds into double tons six times.

In totality, Kohli has crossed the 50-run mark on 34 occasions and has converted 20 of those into hundreds. Hence, with a conversion rate of 58.82%, he is third on the list.

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