13 years before now on these days (August 18), skipper Virat Kohli took his first steps on the worldwide stage as he made his ODI debut for India. Nevertheless, his stint on the crease was short-lived as Kohli scored merely 12 runs in his first worldwide match. Kohli had opened the batting India, and he confronted 22 balls and batted for 33 minutes on the crease prior to Sri Lankan bowler Nuwan Kulasekara dismissed him contained in the eight over. The MS Dhoni-led aspect was bundled out for 146 on this explicit match as Ajantha Mendis and Muttiah Muralitharan each picked three wickets every.
Sri Lanka chased down the intention with 91 balls to spare and defeated India by eight wickets. Kohli needed to await 14 matches for his first century, and he lastly breached the 100-run mark in opposition to Sri Lanka at Kolkata in 2009.
He went on to play a knock of 109 and this century was the primary of many. So far, Kohli has registered 43 tons in ODIs and has established his picture as thought-about one in all many best run-chasers contained in the historic earlier of cricket.
The India skipper has carried out 254 ODIs thus far, by the use of which he has scored 12,169 runs at a suggest of 59.07 collectively collectively together with his highest rating being 183 in opposition to Pakistan. The right-handed batsman is in second place, solely behind legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar contained in the itemizing for lots of a whole bunch in ODI cricket.
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