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#2 Virat Kohli for Sachin Tendulkar

Virat Kohli

The name says it all – Virat Kohli. As a cricketer, Virat Kohli has deservingly filled himself into the role of a cricketing god earlier held by Sachin Tendulkar for more than 2 decades. His batting records certainly give an impression that he is the only guy who can break all the records held by his iconic predecessor and that too in fewer matches.

After scoring his maiden Test century in Adelaide in 2012, Kohli went on to register 23 Test centuries from 71 games. 16 of those 23 Test hundreds came outside India and going forward he is just shy of 8 centuries to equal Graeme Smith’s tally of 25 hundred as captain of the side. No records seem impossible for the 29-year-old if he keeps scoring runs at the same pace.

Two of his stellar performances this year although in a losing cause, Centurion (153) and Edgbaston (149) showcased his calibre of waging a lone battle in times of crisis. These knocks are truly in metaphor to Tendulkar’s classical knock of 136 that came against Pakistan in the Chennai test in 1999.