King Kohli hits 27-year peak in ODIs
Virat Kohli has received the highest ODI batting rating in 27 years, becoming the first Indian to move above 900 points under the ICC's historical system of rating players.
And he's also become just the second batsman in history to achieve a 900-point rating in both Test and ODI cricket at the same time.
Kohli scored 558 runs in the recent six-match ODI series against South Africa and was dismissed only three times, his tally including three centuries.
In the latest ICC rankings revealed on Tuesday, Kohli extended his lead at the top of the rankings to a sizeable 65 points from AB de Villiers.
His ODI rating of 909 is the highest of any player since Australia's Dean Jones in 1991 and the seventh-highest in history; only Sir Viv Richards (935 in 1985), Zaheer Abbas (931 in 1983), Greg Chappell (921 in 1981), David Gower (919 in 1983), Jones (918 in 1991) and Javed Miandad (910 in 1987) have received a higher rating.
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