India vs England 1st Test: 7 stats from Virat Kohli’s 149 that prove how awesome the knock was

— By FPJ Web Desk | Aug 03, 2018 09:53 am

India's Captain Virat Kohli celebrates his century on the second day of the first Test cricket match between England and India at Edgbaston in Birmingham, central England on August 2, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / ADRIAN DENNIS

Virat Kohli notched up a hundred to guide India to 274 all out in the first innings before the hosts ended day one on 9/1 with a slender lead of 22 runs at stumps on the second day of the first Test match at Edgbaston on Thursday.

Replying to England’s 287, Kohli, who was dropped twice by Dawid Malan off James Anderson, scored a gritty 149, his innings laced with 22 fours and a six, to enable the visitors trim the first innings deficit to 13 runs. With his classical century, Kohli stats have become quite interesting. Let’s have a look at some of the amazing stats that have come out due to this impeccable knock of Kohli.

  1. Kohli scored more runs in one innings than he scored in entire 2014 tour

Virat Kohli scored 149 yesterday and improved his 2014 record during India’s tour of England. During that tour, Virat played 10 Test innings and scored only a total of 134 runs. While this time, he scored 149 in just one innings, thereby bettering his Test record on the English soil.


  1. Kohli second only after Azhar here

Virat Kohli has become the 2nd Indian captain after Mohammad Azharuddin to score a century in England in the first innings as a skipper. Azhar achieved this feat in 1990 after scoring 121 against England.

  1. 2nd highest score by an Indian captain in England

Kohli’s knock of 149 is the second highest score of an Indian captain in England. The highest is Mohammad Azharuddin’s knock of 179, which he made in Manchester in 1990. Third player in the list is MAK Patuaudi.

  1. Percentage of runs made by an Indian captain

Kohli made 149 runs yesterday and Indian team’s total was 274. So he made more runs than all the other players. As a captain, he has become the 2nd player after MS Dhoni to contribute maximum runs to the team’s score in an innings. Kohli contributed 54.37% of runs, which is next only to MS Dhoni’s 55.41%, which he contributed while scoring 82 in team’s total of 148. The match was against England in Oval in 2014.

  1. Highest conversion rate for centuries as captain

Kohli is the fastest in the race of converting fifties into hundreds among captains. At present, Kohli’s conversion rate as captain stands at 71%. Other captain are far behind in this. For instance, Steve Smith has a conversion rate of 53%, Kane Williamson has 41.7%, while Joe Root’s conversion rate is just 12.5%.

  1. 3rd most no. of centuries as a captain

Kohli has scored 15 Test centuries as a captain, and only South Africa’s Graeme Smith (22) and Australia’s Ricky Ponting (19) lead him in this.

  1. Kohli telling tail

After the fall of 7th wicket in the form of R Ashwin, India were 169-7. Kohli batted with last three batsmen to add 105 more runs to lead the team’s total to 274/10. Out of these 105 runs in the end, only eight runs were made by other players, Mohammad Shami (2), Ishant Sharma (5) and Umesh Yadav (1).