Virat Kohli's Stats Analysis - Test Matches

Amongst the most prolific century makers in Test History

Virat Kohli: Century Making Machine

Kohli's insane conversion rate in his purple patch has been mentioned in the previous slides, but is it a stand-alone statistic?

What his great conversion rate has meant that he has been scoring hundreds at a jaw-dropping frequency which stands the test of times when compared with other great players from bygone eras.

From where his current record stands, Kohli has been scoring a hundred on an average once every 5.1 innings (118/23). This ratio is expected to go down once the vicissitudes of form get the better of him, but as of today, he merits comparison with the cream of the crop.

Inns/100 for Batsmen with more than 23 test hundreds (Only top 10 selected)

The table makes his position clear, Kohli is only behind Don Bradman and Steve Smith in terms of century scoring frequency. That nobody else has an inns/100 ratio of less than 6 can be attributed to the inevitable dip in form that would have brought the numbers down.

This merits another comparison, what did other players' statistics look like at the same number of hundreds that Kohli has of now.

Best Inns/100 at the completion of 23rd Test Hundred - Excluding Bradman (Only top 10 Inns/100 considerd)

Kohli sits comfortably at the third spot, bettered only by Steven Smith and Sunil Gavaskar, both of whom raked up 23 centuries at similar rates. Other batsmen have varying rates that are different from the rates that they ended up with largely due to indifferent form.

What Kohli's numbers end up being is anybody's guess but at this time he's doing what he needs to; making mighty good use of a purple patch.