Indian team's legendary batsman Virat Kohli has retired from T20 International, so today through this special article let us tell you how Virat Kohli's journey in T20I cricket was.

In the year 2010, he got a chance to debut under the captaincy of Suresh Raina

Very few people would know that Virat Kohli got the chance to debut in T20 International not under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni but under the captaincy of Suresh Raina. This match was played between India and Zimbabwe in Harare in 2010 in which Kohli came to bat at number-5 and he played an unbeaten innings of 26 runs in 21 balls for the team.

These are the great records in the name of King Kohli in T20I

Virat Kohli has many records to his name and the same is true in T20 Internationals.

Virat is the highest run scorer in the ICC T20 World Cup twice and no other player has done this.

In the T20 World Cup played in the year 2014, he scored 319 runs in 6 matches at an average of 106 with 4 half-centuries and with this he also made the record of scoring the most runs in a single edition of the T20 World Cup.

At the same time, in the T20 World Cup held in the year 2022, Kohli's bat also scored 296 runs in 6 innings, which was the highest number of runs in the tournament compared to any player.

Also know that Virat Kohli is also the highest run scorer in the T20 World Cup. He has scored 1292 runs in 35 innings. At the same time, Virat is only behind Rohit Sharma in terms of scoring the most runs in T20 International with 4188 runs.

Virat has scored 39 half centuries in T20 International which is the highest, while he is also the fastest player to complete 3500 runs in 96 T20I innings. Apart from this, Virat has won the Player of the Match award 16 times and the Player of the Series award 7 times in T20 International.

Virat Kohli's T20 International statistics

King Kohli played 125 matches in T20 International in which he scored 4188 runs for Team India at an average of around 48 and a strike rate of 137. During this, one century and 38 half-centuries came from Virat's bat. Virat played the best innings for Team India against Afghanistan in Asia Cup 2022 in which he scored 122 runs in 61 balls while opening.