After a record shattering South Africa tour, team India’s skipper Virat Kohli has received the highest batting ratings for ODIs in the latest rankings revealed by the ICC and he sits on the top with 909 points — the highest for any player in the last 27 years. He’s just the second player after AB de Villiers to have over 900 points in Tests and ODIs at the same time.
Kohli’s rating as per the latest rankings is the highest of any player since Australia’s Dean Jones in 1991. Vivian Richards (935 in 1985), Zaheer Abbas (931 in 1983), Greg Chappell (921 in 1981), David Gower (919 in 1983) and Javed Miandad (910 in 1987) have received a higher rating than Kohli. He is the first Indian player to go into the 900 points mark.
Kohli has now 4 centuries and 2 fifties to his name after 10 games (3 Tests, 6 ODIs and 1 T20I) in South Africa soil. But more interestingly, he is just 130 runs away from amassing 1000 runs on a single tour. Kohli has 870 runs from 13 innings at an average of 87.00 and a strike rate of 82.38.
West Indian legend Vivian Richards is the only batsman in the history of the game to score 1000 runs on an international tour. Richards achieved the feat in 1976 when he amassed 1045 runs in England. While Richards had scored 216 runs in ODIs, he hit 829 in four Test matches.
