While captain Babar Azam, coach Saqlain Mushtaq, and the rest of the team will be busy making plans for the Indian team’s batters and bowlers, one player, Virat Kohli, might take up more of the team’s time when they talk about plans, know his record against Pakistan in T20 cricket
All You Need To Know About Virat Kohli’s Record Against Pakistan In T20 World Cup!
India and Pakistan will play in front of 100,000 screaming fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday in what is expected to be one of the biggest sporting events in recent history. This will be the start of both teams’ T20 World Cup campaigns. In the just-ended Asia Cup in the UAE, the two teams played each other twice and both won a game. They come into the eighth edition of the ICC’s showpiece T20 event on a pretty even footing.
Virat Kohli Record, Runs, Stats List Against Pakistan In T20 Cricket
Most 50+ scores against Pakistan in men's T20I:
5 – Kane Williamson🇳🇿
4 – Aaron Finch🇦🇺
4 – Martin Guptill 🇳🇿
4 – Virat Kohli 🇮🇳
4 – Kevin Pietersen🏴
4 – Shakib Al Hasan🇧🇩Kane becomes the second player with 500+ runs against Pakistan (after another NZ player, Guptill).#NZvPAK
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) October 14, 2022
Pakistan, on the other hand, will look to their 10-wicket thrashing of the Men in Blue in Dubai last year, which broke their World Cup losing streak against India, and hope to play as well as they did then on Sunday.
Virat Kohli Makes The Best Plans!
While captain Babar Azam, coach Saqlain Mushtaq, and the rest of the team will be busy making plans for the Indian team’s batters and bowlers, one player, Virat Kohli, might take up more of the team’s time when they talk about plans.
The former India captain is one of the best limited-overs batters of all time. During his 14-year international career, he played some of his best games against the Men in Green, including a 148-ball 183 in the 2012 Asia Cup that helped India easily beat a 330-run target.
His Record Against Pakistan In The Shortest Format, Focusing On World Cup Matches:
- Virat Kohli’s average in T20Is against Pakistan is a very good 67.66. In nine matches, he has scored 406 runs, including four half-centuries, for a total of 406.
- VK’s average, on the other hand, goes up to a huge 226 in T20 World Cup games. Kohli has scored a half-century in three of his four World Cup games against Pakistan. He has 226 runs and has only been out once. When Shaheen Shah Afridi got rid of him after he had 57 runs in Dubai last year.
- Virat Kohli steadily scores runs against Pakistan, and his strike rate in T20 World Cups and other T20I matches is lower than his career strike rate of 138.09. His scoring rate against Pakistan in World Cups is 126.25, but it drops to 119.06 when his overall T20I record against them is taken into account.
- Kohli (406) is also the fourth-highest run scorer against Pakistan in T20’s. Behind New Zealand’s Kane Williamson (538), Martin Guptill (526), and Eoin Morgan (427). However, the former India captain has the best average against the team of the names listed here.
- Virat Kohli has tied with Aaron Finch, Kevin Pietersen, Shakib Al Hasan. And Martin Guptill for the most fifty-plus scores in T20Is against Pakistan with four. Only the captain of the Black Caps, Williamson (5), has won more.
- His best T20I score against Pakistan came in a 2022 World Cup match as he scored 82.
In all ODIs and T20s against Pakistan, Kohli has amassed 1024 runs in 23 innings at an average of 60.23 and has scored these runs at an impressive strike rate of 107.67 across both formats.
Kohli has smashed 308 runs against Pakistan in T20 World Cup from 5 matches at a batting average of 308 with a Strike Rate of 132.75.