Indian cricket icon Virat Kohli introduced his retirement from T20 Internationals after serving to the Males in Blue to the T20 World Cup 2024 title with a Participant of the Match efficiency towards South Africa within the ultimate on Saturday.
Within the match, Kohli scored 76 off 59 deliveries to assist dig the Indian cricket workforce out of bother following a shaky begin on the Kensington Oval in Barbados. His knock was pivotal in serving to India win their second T20 World Cup title and the primary in 17 years.
“That is my final T20 sport taking part in for India, my final World Cup I used to be going to play,” Kohli stated after the ultimate. “I wished to benefit from it. And this was our intention. We wished to win an ICC event, we wished to raise the cup.
“This was an open secret, it was not one thing that I used to be not going to announce if we might misplaced. It is time for the subsequent era to take over. There are some wonderful gamers taking part in in India. I’ve no doubts they will preserve the flag waving excessive, and actually take this workforce farther from right here now,” he added.
Kohli performed 125 T20I matches in his profession, scoring 4188 runs at a median of 48.69 and a strike price of 137.04. Solely Rohit Sharma, 4231 runs in 159 outings, has managed to build up extra within the format.
The ace Indian batter, who made his T20I debut towards Zimbabwe in 2010, can also be the quickest batter to succeed in the 3500-run milestone in T20Is, hitting the mark in simply 96 innings.
With 1292 runs in 35 matches, Kohli, a former Crew India captain throughout codecs, additionally finishes his profession on the prime of the run scorers’ charts in T20 World Cups. He stays the one participant to have been the very best run scorer in two completely different T20 World Cups.
Kohli scored 319 runs within the 2014 World Cup in Bangladesh and adopted it up with 296 runs within the 2022 version in Australia. His 319 runs in 2014, scored at a median of 106.33, is the very best run tally for any batsman at a single version of the T20 World Cup.
He was additionally named within the ICC Males’s T20I Crew of the Decade from 2011 to 2020.