Kohli had scored 765 runs in the ODI Cricket World Cup series held in India last year. With this he won the Man of the Series award. This was the highest run scored by any player in this series. He scored a century against New Zealand in the semi-finals of the World Cup last year. This is his 50th century in ODI cricket. He is the top scorer in this format.

He has made the record of being the player to cross 13,000 runs in just 267 innings in ODI cricket. He has 39 half-centuries to his name in international T20 cricket. He played for the Indian team that won the T20 World Cup, World Cup and Champions Trophy titles. The recently concluded Test series against New Zealand was not good for him. However, he is expected to perform well against Australia in the upcoming Border Gavaskar Trophy Test series. Because it is their nature to get up whenever they fall.