NEW DELHI: The chorus of voices asking for Virat Kohli to be possibly dropped from the Indian T20 team, with the T20 World Cup around the corner, has been slowly getting louder over the last few weeks. It is something that was unfathomable even a few months ago. The current Team India policy to rest players frequently as per their workload management ethos is also under the scanner.
Kohli, India's modern day run machine, with 23,693 international runs across formats at a 53.72 career average is the only batter with a 50-plus career average among the top run-getters in the world. Even the great Sachin Tendulkar, who tops the overall list of international runs with 34,357 runs, had a career average of 48.52. Kohli also has already scored a whopping 70 international hundreds (43 in ODIs & 27 in Tests) and he did that by 2019. He is third only behind Ricky Ponting (71) and Tendulkar (100) on the overall most international centuries list, before the ongoing lean run began at the turn of the new decade. For a long time he averaged over 50 across all three formats - a feat which spoke volumes about just how prolific the former India captain has been over the years. Even now, Virat averages above 50 in ODIs and T20Is.
