The first years
The archive opens in 2008: 17 innings, 324 runs, average 20.25.
Virat Kohli's career, year by year
Figures on this page come from 860 innings (18 Apr 2008 to 9 Mar 2025; formats: IPL, T20I, ODI, TEST). Formats or seasons not yet imported are not included. How the numbers are made
The peak
2016 is the highest-scoring year in the data with 3,568 runs in 57 innings, including 11 centuries.
The hundreds
Centuries arrived in 15 different years: 2009 (1), 2010 (3), 2011 (4), 2012 (8), 2013 (6), 2014 (8), 2015 (4), 2016 (11), 2017 (11), 2018 (11), 2019 (8), 2022 (2), 2023 (10), 2024 (2), 2025 (1). The most recent was on 23 Feb 2025.
The latest chapter
The archive runs to 2025, with 298 runs in 9 innings that year at an average of 37.25.
Career graph
Career explorer
Choose any combination and the numbers below are recalculated from the innings behind them.
- Matches
- 771
- Innings
- 860
- Runs
- 35,603
- Average
- 48.51
- Strike rate
- 87.12
- 100s
- 90
- 50s
- 198
- Highest score
- 254*
Year by year
| Year | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | Strike rate | 100s | 50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 17 | 17 | 324 | 20.25 | 81.82 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 21 | 21 | 571 | 33.59 | 94.54 | 1 | 3 |
| 2010 | 37 | 37 | 1,328 | 42.84 | 94.72 | 3 | 8 |
| 2011 | 59 | 63 | 2,201 | 40.76 | 84.78 | 4 | 14 |
| 2012 | 54 | 61 | 2,550 | 47.22 | 78.49 | 8 | 12 |
| 2013 | 55 | 59 | 2,547 | 50.94 | 87.65 | 6 | 16 |
| 2014 | 51 | 61 | 2,645 | 48.98 | 87.12 | 8 | 14 |
| 2015 | 46 | 53 | 1,812 | 40.27 | 76.42 | 4 | 6 |
| 2016 | 50 | 57 | 3,568 | 84.95 | 92.75 | 11 | 20 |
| 2017 | 56 | 62 | 3,126 | 61.29 | 94.81 | 11 | 14 |
| 2018 | 50 | 61 | 3,265 | 64.02 | 78.60 | 11 | 13 |
| 2019 | 57 | 60 | 2,919 | 56.13 | 96.15 | 8 | 16 |
| 2020 | 36 | 39 | 1,308 | 38.47 | 97.47 | 0 | 10 |
| 2021 | 37 | 45 | 1,369 | 34.23 | 71.64 | 0 | 13 |
| 2022 | 53 | 58 | 1,689 | 33.78 | 89.89 | 2 | 13 |
| 2023 | 46 | 50 | 2,687 | 62.49 | 87.47 | 10 | 16 |
| 2024 | 38 | 47 | 1,396 | 33.24 | 102.42 | 2 | 7 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9 | 298 | 37.25 | 73.22 | 1 | 2 |