Know who is a better batsman and captain and the Virat Kohli vs Rohit Sharma captaincy stats, record and numbers
The two biggest names in cricket define themselves as Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, both considered amongst the best batsmen in international cricket as well as in the Indian Premier League.
The current captain and the Ex captain of Indian cricket team have been dominating T20s, ODIs as well as Test cricket for a long time, and have given performances on the big stage every time asked. So below here we take a look on their captaincy along with batting records.
Virat Kohli Vs Rohit Sharma Career Records: Who Is The Best
Virat Kohli
The captain of the Indian test cricket team and of the IPL franchise Royal Bangalore has often been described as one of the greatest player of all time. The 33 year old was born on 5th November,1988 in New Delhi, India and records after his name just goes and goes considering the most famous being the fastest to reach 23,000 runs runs in international cricket.
He has been awarded with some big recognizable awards by ICC namely Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, ICC Test Player Of The Year (2018), ICC ODI Player Of The Year (2012,2017,2018) and many more.
Rohit Sharma
The fellow teammate full named as Rohit Gurunath Sharma has often been considered as the most destructive ODI batsman and is famous for his three Double centuries in ODI’s. Rohit currently holds the record for most sixes in a test series which he established at the 2019 series against South Africa, also in the same year he became the only batsman to score five centuries in a cricket World Cup.
For his amazing performances in ODI cricket in 2019 he was rewarded as the ICC ODI Player Of The Year in Jaunary,2020.
Virat Kohli vs Rohit Sharma Head To Head Captaincy Record, Stats, IPL Numbers
Kohli led India to 65 wins out of 95 ODIs, and 29 of 45 T20Is as the captain while under Rohit Sharma India has an 80% win record in 10 ODIs and around 80% in 19 T20Is.
Rohit Sharma has success rate of almost 70% in comparison to Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore’s which is below 50% in the IPL.
In IPL
Virat Kohli
Runs Scored – 628
Average – 37.39
Matches Played And Won As Captain – Played 140 & Won 64
Strike Rate – 129.94
IPL Trophies – 0
Rohit Sharma
Runs Scored – 5611
Average – 31.17
Matches Played And Won As Captain – Played 129 & Won 75
Strike Rate – 130.39
IPL Trophies – 5
The season 15 of IPL will be seeing both the players in their respective teams after both of them being retained in the recent held auction.
Rohit Sharma vs Virat Kohli In ODI Matches: Who Is A Better Batsman
| Parameter | Rohit Sharma | Virat Kohli |
| ODI Debut | 23, June 2007 | 18,Aug 2008 |
| ODI Matches | 224 | 245 |
| Runs | 9115 | 11792 |
| Double Centuries | 3 | 0 |
| Centuries | 29 | 43 |
| Half Centuries | 43 | 57 |
| Best Score | 264 | 183 |
| Sixes | 244 | 121 |
| Average | 49.27 | 59.86 |
| ICC Ranking | 2 | 1 |
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