Virat Kohli: Indian team legend Virat Kohli is becoming a more dangerous batsman with increasing age. After retirement from T20 and Test, Kohli's bat is burning more fire than before. There has been a big and interesting change in Kohli's playing style in the last two years. He has batted with an amazing average and strike rate in ODI cricket in the years 2025 and 2026. Kohli is certain to play in the ODI World Cup till 2027. Team India and fans would like him to bat in this style and help make the team champion.
Year changed but hunger to score runs remains the same, Virat Kohli's performance in 2025
Be it the year 2025 or 2026, there has been no decrease in Virat Kohli's passion to score runs and play match-winning innings. Talking about Kohli's performance in the year 2025, he scored a total of 651 runs in 13 innings at an excellent average of 65.10. During this period, he scored 3 brilliant centuries and 4 half-centuries, which put Team India in a strong position in many matches.
We are seeing a brand new Virat Kohli in ODIs 🚀 pic.twitter.com/HWM6iPYtYt
— Cricinfo (@cricinfo) November 6, 2026
Kohli's even more dangerous form in the year 2026
At the same time, in the year 2026, Virat Kohli's game has reached a different dangerous level. So far this year, he has scored 626 runs in only 10 ODI innings. The most important thing is that this year his batting average has become even better. Kohli is scoring runs at an average of 70 this year, which includes 2 centuries and 4 half-centuries. Scoring so many runs in so few innings shows his amazing form this year.
Virat Kohli is now batting at the strike rate of T20 in ODIs.
In this entire figure, Virat Kohli's strike rate has surprised the fans the most. In the year 2025, Kohli's strike rate was 96.15, which is considered quite good and stable in terms of ODI cricket. But in the year 2026, his strike rate has jumped like a rocket and reached 120.61. This simply means that Kohli is no longer counting on taking single-doubles just by staying at the crease, but as soon as he comes on the field, he is completely dominating the opposition bowlers and batting furiously.
Nobody has scored more runs in ODI run-chases than Virat Kohli 👑 pic.twitter.com/ai8Kghsnut
— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) November 4, 2026
Kohli also took the lead in scoring boundaries
The fours and sixes from his bat are also a testimony to the new aggressiveness in Kohli's game. In 13 innings of the year 2025, where he hit 54 fours and 13 sixes. In just 10 innings of the year 2026, he has hit 59 fours and 18 brilliant sixes. Despite playing less innings, this number of sixes and fours is much more than last year, which clearly shows that King Kohli is no longer giving any chance to the bowlers to get set.
If we understand the statistics of these two years in simple words, Virat Kohli has made himself even more dangerous without abandoning his classic batting. This new and aggressive form of his is going to prove to be a big headache for the opposing teams in the upcoming big tournaments.
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