Virat Kohli

613 articles tagged with "Virat Kohli"

Oct 17, 2026

Bumrah and Jadeja are in India’s Test squad for New Zealand but not the ODIs, and Iyer will captain the last two

India have named three groups for New Zealand: one for the first three ODIs under Shubman Gill, one for the last two under Shreyas Iyer, and a Test sq...

Oct 13, 2026

Kohli made 139 not out and Rohit 225 runs against West Indies, and the BCCI president says age should not count against them

Mithun Manhas says fitness and performance, not age, should decide India’s 2027 World Cup picks. On the evidence of the West Indies series, Kohli and...

Sep 29, 2026

Kohli has a hundred in both of India’s ODIs at Barsapara, and a win there on Wednesday takes the series

India lead West Indies 1-0 going into the second ODI in Guwahati, a ground where they have won both men’s ODIs they have played. The bowling around Ku...

Sep 27, 2026

Gill was hit on the elbow in Friday’s nets, and he and Kohli made hundreds as India chased 296

Virat Kohli made 139 not out and Shubman Gill 110 as India beat West Indies by eight wickets in Thiruvananthapuram, after Justin Greaves’ maiden ODI h...

Sep 27, 2026

Kohli has won one World Cup in four attempts, and he says 2027 will be his last

Virat Kohli has told JioStar that the 2027 ODI World Cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia will be his last for India, as the West Indies series s...

Sep 26, 2026

Siraj hit Shubman Gill on the right elbow in the nets, and India’s captain has a day to be ready for West Indies

Shubman Gill left the nets clutching his right elbow after a Mohammed Siraj delivery reared up at him in Thiruvananthapuram. He was back facing throwd...

Sep 24, 2026

West Indies have landed in Thiruvananthapuram, and two wins over India would still not get them to the World Cup

The ODI rankings cut-off for the 2027 World Cup falls on the day of the second ODI in Guwahati, and West Indies are already bound for the Qualifier.

Sep 23, 2026

The ICC wants fewer bilateral ODIs, and bringing back the tri-series is the right way to do it

The 2027-31 schedule being drawn up in Dubai swaps standalone ODI series for more T20Is. The 50-over games that survive need something riding on them.

Sep 17, 2026

IPL winners list: every champion from 2008 to 2026, and the five finals Chennai lost

Every IPL champion from 2008 to 2026 in one table, plus the numbers underneath it: who has played the most finals, who has lost the most of them, and...

Sep 16, 2026

India vs West Indies ODI series: the schedule, the head-to-head and what the three grounds actually do

Three ODIs from 27 September, the first meeting between the sides in more than three years, at two grounds with two ODIs each and one that has never s...

Sep 16, 2026

Rohit and Kohli are back in India’s ODI squad, and Rishabh Pant has been sent to the Irani Cup

India named three squads on Wednesday night: an ODI fifteen with Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in it, a separate T20I side under Shreyas Iyer, and a Re...

Aug 29, 2026

Hit wicket in cricket: what the rule says and why T20 produces six times as many

Hit wicket has happened 119 times in 4.17 million deliveries, and a batter is six times likelier to go this way in a T20 league than in a Test. What L...

Aug 27, 2026

India’s Asian Games gold medal match and their third ODI against West Indies are on the same day

India need two men’s teams in late September, and their women go from a possible Asia Cup final in Dubai to an Asian Games quarter-final in Japan five...

Aug 18, 2026

Kohli’s first innings for India was 12 in Dambulla, and it is 18 years old today

On 18 August 2008 a 19-year-old opened India’s batting at Dambulla, made 12, and finished on the wrong side of an eight-wicket defeat. Eighteen years...

Jul 23, 2026

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur: pitch report, records and stats

Jaipur’s IPL first-innings average has gone from 142 in 2011 to 225 in 2026, and the chase wins two matches in three. Here is the pitch report and the...

Jul 22, 2026

Raipur Cricket Stadium: pitch report, capacity and records at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh ground

India’s third-largest cricket ground has hosted twelve senior men’s matches and, since October 2026, three women’s T20Is. The chase has won 11 of the...

Jul 18, 2026

ODI cricket records: the biggest numbers in the 50-over game

From Sachin Tendulkar’s mountain of runs to Rohit Sharma’s 264 and England’s 498, here are the batting, bowling and wicketkeeping records that define...

Jul 17, 2026

India and England head to a Lord’s decider with the series level

The three-match series reaches Lord’s on Sunday tied at 1-1, with India and England each having landed one win and a decider left to separate them.

Jul 17, 2026

Root’s unbeaten 99 levels the series as England beat India in Cardiff

Joe Root carried England’s chase and finished stranded on 99 not out as the hosts beat India by four wickets in Cardiff to level the one-day series at...

Jul 16, 2026

The runs still favour Kohli and Rohit, but the 2027 question won’t go away

Kohli and Rohit are ODI-only now, and every low score reopens the same debate. After two cheap dismissals at Edgbaston, here is where the 2027 World C...

Jul 15, 2026

India can seal the ODI series in Cardiff after Axar’s Birmingham rescue

India lead 1-0 and can wrap up the three-match series with a game to spare when they face England in the second ODI at Cardiff on Thursday.

Jul 13, 2026

After a T20I whitewash, India get a clean slate in the ODIs at Edgbaston

India’s white-ball tour of England moves to the 50-over game at Edgbaston on Tuesday, with Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah back in the mi...

Jul 12, 2026

Kohli and Bumrah return as India regroup for the ODIs after a T20I mauling

England swept the five-match T20I series 4-0, but India get a clean slate on July 14 when the one-day leg begins at Edgbaston with Virat Kohli and Jas...

Jul 4, 2026

Virat Kohli records: every major milestone, format by format

Virat Kohli holds the most centuries in one-day international history and is the fastest batter to nearly every big ODI run milestone. Here is every r...