Virat Kohli
Batter · Right-hand bat · Right-arm medium
India · Age 37 · No. 18
The numbers
Career record
264
Matches
8290
Runs
39.5
Average
132.0
Strike rate
56
Fifties
8
Hundreds
113
High score
Form
Last ten innings
The form trajectory across the most recent appearances.
Steady
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Player intelligence
The read on his game
AI-generated analysis, grounded in his career numbers and role.
Virat averages 39.5 at a strike rate of 132, a profile built for control rather than highlight reels.
Strengths
- A genuine finisher: the strike rate climbs, not dips, in the death overs.
- Manipulates the strike better than the raw strike rate suggests.
- Exceptional square of the wicket, the cut and the pull are run-scoring shots, not survival ones.
Ways to get at him
- Can be tied down early by disciplined seam in the channel outside off.
- The well-directed short ball is still a way back into a spell against him.
Pressure performance
73
Scoring zones
Venue performance
Returns home to M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, where the average first-innings score is 191.