In the ongoing series of Virat Kohli records against various top bowlers, The spotlight now shifts to Virat Kohli vs Pat Cummins. Indian legendary cricketer Virat Kohli is known as one of the greatest cricketers in international cricket history. While the right-handed batter has amazed world cricket with his incredible batting performances, again and again, the Australian star fast bowler Pat Cummins is one of the incredible fast bowlers who has outstandingly handled the captaincy role in each format.
Virat Kohli
Indian right-handed batter Virat Kohli is the fourth-leading run-scorer in international cricket with 27000+ international runs. While the right-handed batter is approaching the top 10 of the most Test run-scorers list, he is in the top three positions in the list of most ODI and most T20I run-scorers. Kohli has smashed 81 international centuries, the second-most centuries in international cricket history. Virat Kohli with 50 ODI centuries is already on the top of the list of most odi centuries.
Pat Cummins
Australian right-arm fast bowler Pat Cummins is one of the greatest pacers in the modern generation. He is one of the modern generation bowlers who have mastered setting up bouncers against the opposition batters. While the modern generation captains are generally strong batters, Cummins has set an example with his incredible captaincy successes. With 450+ international wickets, Cummins dominates every format of world cricket.
Virat Kohli vs Pat Cummins Stats in Test Cricket
In their Test cricket battle, Kohli has scored 116 runs in 291 balls, while Cummins has dismissed the Indian star five times. While Kohli has faced 235 dot balls against Cummins, the right-handed batter has hit 12 fours off Cummins.
Balls Faced | 291 |
Runs | 116 |
0s | 235 |
4s | 12 |
6s | 0 |
Batting Strike Rate | 39.90 |
Wickets/Outs | 5 |
Bowling Average | 23.20 |
Virat Kohli vs Pat Cummins Stats in ODIs
In their ODI battle, Kohli has scored almost 100 strike rate by scoring 174 runs off 175 balls with the help of 19 fours and three sixes. Meanwhile, Cummins has taken Kohli’s wickets twice in the ODI format.
Balls Faced | 175 |
Runs | 174 |
0s | 83 |
4s | 19 |
6s | 3 |
Batting Strike Rate | 99.40 |
Wickets/Outs | 2 |
Bowling Average | 87.00 |
Virat Kohli vs Pat Cummins Stats in T20Is
While Cummins has dismissed Kohli once in the T20I format, the right-handed batter Kohli has scored 25 runs off 16 balls, including two sixes.
Balls Faced | 16 |
Runs | 25 |
0s | 3 |
4s | 0 |
6s | 2 |
Batting Strike Rate | 156.20 |
Wickets/Outs | 1 |
Bowling Average | 25.00 |
T20 cricket (other than T20 international): They have the face-off in the Indian Premier League, where Kohli has never been dismissed by Cummins. The right-handed batter has scored 41 runs off 33 balls against Cummins, including five fours and one over boundary.
Balls Faced | 33 |
Runs | 41 |
0s | 12 |
4s | 5 |
6s | 1 |
Batting Strike Rate | 124.20 |
Wickets/Outs | 0 |
Bowling Average | – |
Kohli vs Cummins Memorable Encounters
2018 Perth Test Australia vs India
Although India lost the Test match, captain Virat Kohli smashed a century during India’s first innings. In the reply to Australia’s first innings total of 326 runs, India were all out for 283 runs, where the skipper Kohli scored 123 runs off 257 balls with the help of 13 fours and one six. During India’s first innings, Kohli faced 90+ balls from Cummins where the right-handed batter scored 30+ runs, including three fours. Ultimately, Cummins won that battle as Kohli was caught at the deep square leg on his delivery. It was the only wicket for Cummins in that innings. They also had a little face-off in the fourth innings of the match, where the Indian skipper Kohli scored 17 runs before Nathan Lyon dismissed him.
2018 Melbourne Test Australia vs India
The 2018 Melbourne Test was played after the Perth Test, where the visitors regained the lead of the series by winning the match by 137 runs. In the first innings of the Melbourne Test. while the opener Mayank Agarwal scored 76 and the no.3 batter Cheteshwar Pujara scored 106 runs, captain Virat Kohli scored 82 off 204 balls with the help of nine fours. In that innings, Kohli faced Cummins 39 times, out of which 29 balls were dots and one was four. After Starc took the wicket of Kohli in his 80s, the skipper scored a four-ball duck in his next innings of the Test. Kohli faced four balls from Cummins during India’s second innings and was caught out by the leg gully in Cummins’ delivery. In that Test match, while Cummins took three wickets in the first innings (3/72), the right-arm fast bowler claimed a six-wicket haul in the next innings (6/27).
2019 Nagpur ODI India vs Australia
It was a great example of an incredible ODI battle between two greats. Aussie fast bowler Pat Cummins started to dominate with the ball from the first over of the match by dismissing opener Rohit Sharma for a duck. Cummins continued his outstanding bowling in the slog overs, conceding only seven runs off 12 balls by taking three wickets. However, the Indian captain Virat Kohli played an important role for the hosts by scoring 116 runs off 120 balls with 10 fours. While Cummins conceded only three fours in his incredible bowling figures of 9-2-29-4, Kohli hit him one four. After scoring 13 runs off 12 balls against Cummins, Kohli lost his wicket against the Aussie fast bowler. While India were all out for 250 runs, they won the ODI match by eight runs.
Virat Kohli vs Pat Cummins Head to Head: Special Stats
Pat Cummins is one of the two Australian pacers who dismissed Virat Kohli at least once in all three international cricket formats.
Pat Cummins is among the only two bowlers to dismiss Kohli in each format of the ICC tournaments (ICC World Test Championship, ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup and/or ICC Champions Trophy, and ICC Men’s World T20).
Apart from Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma, Kohli is the only other batter to score more than 150 runs against Cummins in ODI cricket.
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