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Virat Kohli is certainly on cloud nine after he led India to the ICC World Test Championship final with a 3-1 series win over Joe Root-led England in the recently-concluded four Tests at home.
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While Team India is delivering in all the formats, since their return to international cricket in the post COVID-19 era, they will now prepare hard in the shortest format with the next edition of the T20 World Cup to be held in India in late 2021.
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The Men in Blue are looking forward to the upcoming five-match T20I series versus Eoin Morgan-led England as a dress rehearsal for the mega event, given England are one of the favourites for the marquee tournament.
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As Kohli & Co. are preparing intensely ahead of the series opener on Friday (March 12), captain Kohli is eyeing a huge record up his sleeves prior to the first T20I.
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Kohli, who is the leading run-getter in the T20Is with 2,928 runs, will be eyeing to become the first-ever batsman to enter the 3,000-run club when he takes the field in the first T20I versus England.
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In 85 T20Is, the right-hander averages 50.48 with 25 half-centuries but still hasn’t managed to cross the three-figure mark.
Most runs in T20Is
Kohli – 2,928
Rohit Sharma – 2,839
Martin Guptill – 2,773
Aaron Finch – 2,346
Shoaib Malik – 2,335
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Even if Kohli misses out on entering the 3,000-run club in the first T20I, he will certainly get past the feat during the course of the series unless injury rules him out midway.
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Virat Kohli & Co. set to undergo hard quarantine ahead of WTC final, Southampton likely to be the venue
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Kohli’s last international hundred came in November 2019. Since then, he has been in decent touch in white-ball formats but failed to get going in the India-England Tests. Thus, he will look to move past his indifferent form and also end his century-drought with his maiden ton in the forthcoming T20Is.
CONCLUSION
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Speaking on Kohli’s form, VVS Laxman recently told on Star Sports’ show Game Plan, “It’s not necessary for him to play the anchor role, because we know that he’s a stroke player.
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If he plays with positive intent, if he plays his high percentage shots, not only his strike rate will be high, but his consistency also will be there for everyone to see — he’s a match-winner.
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With Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul opening the innings, and then you have got Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant, I think they have a lot of depth. So, Kohli should go out and express himself and play with a lot of freedom, and that’s when he’s very dangerous.”
