Team India Batter Virat Kohli has become the first cricketer in history to cross the 900 -digit mark in the ICC rankings in all three forms of the game in international cricket. The International Cricket Council (ICC) revised Kohli’s career-Best T20I rating from 897 to 909, a year later he retired from the smallest format.
Virat Kohli retired from Test and T20I cricket. He announced his T20i retirement after winning the ICC T20 World Cup in June 2024. Before the beginning of India’s tour of England, experienced batsmen also confirmed exit from Test cricket. Kohli is now available for selection only in one day international.
Virat Kohli became the first cricketer to cross 900+ ICC rating points in all three formats
Virat Kohli recently became a trending subject online after the ICC was unexpectedly revised from 897 to 909. Kohli has not played a T20I match for men in Blue in a year. This update in the ranking has surprised many fans.
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However, this is part of the ICC’s regular modification process, where they assure the previous match data and accordingly accommodate the player rating. This can increase the increase or decrease in the best rating of a player’s career based on re -obtained data and updated methods.
Kohli’s revised T20i rating was likely after such an ICC review. The right hand became the first cricketer to cross the 900-point mark in the three formats: Testing, Odis and T20 came.
Virat Kohli in third place in ICC All-Time T20I rankings with 909 rating points
Virat Kohli’s 909 updated T20i rating ranked him third on the ICC’s all-time T20i rankings, behind Dawid Malan (919) and Suryakumar Yadav (912). Kohli is one of the selected Indian players who have scored for centuries in tests, ODIs and T20Is.
The 36 -year -old cricketer has earned several ICC praise, which has been named the Cricketer of the Year in 2017 and 2018 and has won both Tests and ODI Cricketers of the Year Awards.
Kohli has won the T20 World Cup, ODI World Cup and two ICC Champion Trophy. He ranks fourth in the ICC ODI batting rankings with 736 points. Kohli retired from Test cricket in May 2025. He played 123 matches, scoring 9,230 runs at an average of 46.85 with 30 centuries and 31 fifty.
Virat Kohli last seen in action during IPL 2025
Kohli was last seen in action during IPL 2025, where he helped Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) to secure his first title with a win over Punjab Kings (PBK) in the final.
India has been scheduled to visit Australia for a three-match ODI ODI and five-match T20I series in October. Kohli, who is active in Odis, is expected to join the squad, Rohit Sharma is currently a pioneer in the format.
After his retirement from Tests and T20i, Kohli now has a chance to promote his ODI rankings. Delhi -born batsman had an extraordinary T20i career, with a average of 4,188 runs in 125 matches and a strike rate of 137.04 on an average.
Kohli scored 9,230 runs in an average 123 tests of 46.35, including 30 centuries. He has scored more than 14,000 runs in Odis, including 51 hundreds.
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