Virat Kohli, the star batsman for India, established a huge record when the ICC updated his total T20I rating points. Interestingly, Kohli is still breaking records despite having departed from the T20I and Test formats.
The ICC changed Virat Kohli’s maximum rating points in Twenty20 Internationals from 897 to 909 on Wednesday, July 16 (via NDTV Sports). Now that he has more than 900 rating points across all three formats, he is the only batter in history to do so.
In 2018, he recorded his highest-ever rating points in the ICC Men’s Test rankings, 937, which is the greatest for an Indian batter. He also recorded his highest-ever ODI rating of 909 points in the same year.
Virat Kohli was also in the No.1 position in the ICC ranking in all formats in his prime. He played his final IPL match in 2025 appearing with the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and in outstanding performance, he recorded 657 runs in 15 matches with an average of 54.75 with eight half-centuries.
Kohli played his final match in the format after India conquered the 2024 U.S.A., and West Indies T20 World Cup. In the final against South Africa he got 76 runs and got the Player of the Match award.
Virat Kohli Retires from Test Cricket Before England Tour in 2025
On May 12, 2025, Virat Kohli declared his retirement in Test cricket before the 5-match series in England. He has an experience of 123 matches in the format since he made his debut in 2011. He made 9230 runs in those games with an average of 46.85 and 30 centuries and 31 fifties.
His final Test match was in the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar trophy, in which he played five Tests and scored 190 with a one-hundred in the first Test. In 125 T20I matches, Kohli has batted 4188 runs at a mean of 48.69, that include one century and 38 half-centuries.
He will now only play for India in One-Day Internationals. Kohli has accumulated 14181 runs at an average of 57.88 in 302 games played in the format. He now holds the record for the most hundreds in the format with 51 tons, surpassing the great Sachin Tendulkar (49).
