Indian skipper Virat Kohli became the first person to be the Wisden India Almanack Cricketer of the Year for the second time, named in the book’s fifth edition released at the Jaipur Literature Festival by Bishan Singh Bedi, the former India captain, on January 23.

Kohli, who had a terrific run in 2016 across all the three formats, has been leading the side from the front, scoring most of the runs and his captaincy skills have been brilliant.

Apart from the recently concluded T20 series against England, Kohli has been a delight to watch. His wins in Sri Lanka, West Indies on their home turf and big wins against New Zealand, South Africa and England at home have as been highlight of his captaincy career.

Virat Kohli has broken many records, as a player and as a captain.

Here is the list of his fabulous records and achievements –

His Personal Achievements -

• Recently he was awarded the prestigious Padma Shri from the government of India.

• He was awarded the ICC ODI Cricketer of the year in 2012.

• The prestigious Arjuna Award was also awarded to Virat Kohli in 2013.

• CEAT – International Cricketer of the year was awarded to Kohli twice in the year of 2011-12 and in 2013 -14.

• Kohli was also named in the ICC World ODI XI in 2012, 2014 and 2016.

• In 2016, Virat was named as the captain of World ODI XI.

• Cricket Australia also named Virat as the captain of the year.

His record as Player – He has been MR. Fabulous as player and as captain.
• He has scored most ODI runs in a calendar year from 2010 to 2016.

• He has hit the fastest century. His hundred in just 52 balls against Australia is the fastest ODI century scored by an Indian batsman.

• He is the fastest Indian to reach 1,000 runs.

• He is the fastest Indian and 2nd fastest to score 15 ODI hundreds.

• He is the fastest to score 25 ODI hundreds in the world.

• He is the first Indian to score 1000 runs in T20s and fastest in the world to reach 1,000 runs in this shortest format.

• He has also won the most Man of the match awards in the 20 over format.

• He has been the successful run chaser for India. He has equalled record of most hundreds while chasing. He has scored 14 centuries while chasing, he has equalled it with the Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar.

Captaincy Records – Virat Kohli has been a leader who leads his team from the front.
• He is the first Indian captain to score 3 double hundreds.

• First player to 3 centuries in his first three innings as a captain.

• Only indian captain to score a double hundred overseas.

• He is the fastest captain to score 1,000 ODI runs.

• His 239 against England in Mumbai is the highest test score by an Indian captain. He overtook MS Dhoni’s score of 224 Vs Australia in Chennai.