Most runs across formats by a visiting captain in South Africa

#1 Virat Kohli (India tour of South Africa, 2018)

It's arduous to recall if there was ever a purple patch as thick as the one Virat Kohli is going through for the past three years. Having scored almost 5.24% of his ODI runs in the current series that saw him amass 558 runs and become the fastest to score 17,000 International runs, it is surreal the benchmarks Kohli is setting for himself, his peers and the generation to follow.

The tour of the Rainbow nation has proved to be another feather in the cap in Virat Kohli's magnanimous career. The visitors didn't have the brightest of starts, having been beaten at Cape Town where Kohli had a rare off game both as a batsman and as skipper. However, the 29 year-old came back roaring and registered the only hundred (153) by a batsman on either side. Kohli finished the series as the highest run-getter from either side accumulating, 286 runs at a healthy average of 47.67.

The Indian skipper maintained his form to devastating effects in the one-day leg of the tour. After two centuries in the first five games, he was at it again in the sixth ODI at Centurion where the inevitability of his hundred was ridiculous. He scored an undeterred 129 off just 93 balls to bring up a hundred No. 35 and a 5-1 win for his team.

Kohli has scored a mind-boggling 558 runs in six innings, swelling his overall tally of the tour to 844 runs. The world no.1 ODI batsman also shattered the record of most runs by a batsman in a bilateral ODI series,previously held by Rohit Sharma (491 vs Australia, 2013). With three T20I still left on the sojourn, a 1000 runs by an Indian skipper in an away tour now looks an overwhelming possibility.