India vs Australia: Stats reveal Virat Kohli’s love for MS Dhoni’s home ground
This was Kohli’s second ton at MS Dhoni’s home ground and overall as well the current India skipper enjoys a very healthy record at this venue.
Skipper Virat Kohli’s majestic ton went in vain as Australia beat India by 32 runs to stay alive in the five-match series at the JSCA International Stadium in Ranchi on Friday. The visitors now trail 1-2 in the series after losing the first two matches in Vizag and Nagpur respectively.
This was Kohli’s second ton at MS Dhoni’s home ground and overall as well the current India skipper enjoys a very healthy record at this venue. Kohli has now scored 384 runs in Ranchi and that is by far the most by any batsman in the world. Kohli has featured in four ODIs here and his scores are -
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77* vs England, 2013
139* vs Sri Lanka, 2013
45 vs New Zealand, 2016
123 vs Australia, 2019
Kohli’s average jumps to an incredible 192 at the JSCA Stadium and this is his second best at any venue where he has played a minimum of three innings. Birmingham’s Edgbaston stadium is Kohli’s favourite venue where he aggregates 243.0 in four outings.
Kohli added numerous accolades to his name after scoring another blazing ton in the 50-over format of the game. He became the 12th ODI skipper to score 4000 ODI runs during his innings of 123 runs off 95 balls.
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The current India skipper is the fourth Indian after MS Dhoni (6641), Mohammad Azharuddin (5239) and Sourav Ganguly (5104) to reach the milestone. He is also the fastest (63 innings) to achieve 4000 ODI runs as captain surpassing AB de Villiers (77 innings).
Kohli has now scored the second most number (eight) of centuries against Australia. Former India cricketer Sachin Tendulkar leads the list with nine centuries to his name.
