Virat Kohli Revealed As Most Googled Cricketer In History

On Monday, December 11, the India National Cricket Team batting maestro Virat Kohli was revealed as the most searched cricketer in the 25-year history of Google.

Kohli is regarded as one of the all-time greats in cricket. The 35-year-old has broken numerous historic records and is still going strong. Kohli is one of the fittest cricketers on the planet and it will not be a surprise if he continues for 5 more years and shatters and creates more iconic cricketing records.

Since making his debut in 2008, Virat Kohli has played 518 matches in international cricket. He has scored 26532 runs at an average of 54.36 and a strike rate of 79.41. He has slammed 80 centuries and 138 half-centuries in his career. Virat Kohli is the second-highest century scorer in international cricket only behind Sachin Tendulkar’s tally of 100 tons.

He was most recently seen in action in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 in India and the 35-year-old was in exceptional form. He scored the most runs in the marquee tournament and won the Player of the Tournament award. He scored 765 runs in 11 matches, at an average of 95.62 and a strike rate of 90.32.

During the tournament, he also broke the massive record of Sachin Tendulkar for most centuries in ODI cricket and he now has 50 ODI tons to his name.

Meanwhile, Tech giant Google shared a video on December 11 featuring a comprehensive compilation of the most searched topics in its 25-year history. And Virat Kohli was featured in the video as the most searched cricketer in history.

If the last 25 years have taught us anything, the next 25 will change everything. Here’s to the most searched moments of all time. #YearInSearch pic.twitter.com/MdrXC4ILtr

— Google (@Google) December 11, 2023

Virat Kohli To Be Next Seen In Action vs South Africa

The India tour of South Africa 2023-24 consists of a three-match T20I series, a three-match ODI series, and a two-match Test series.

The Men In Blue and the Proteas will play two Test matches to wrap up the series with the first Test starting on December 26 in Centurion. The second and final Test will be played from January 3 in Cape Town.

Virat Kohli along with skipper Rohit Sharma asked for a rest for the white-ball leg of the tour against South Africa, but the duo will return to action in the two-match Test series.

India’s squad for Tests: Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan (wk), KL Rahul (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Mohd. Shami*, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Prasidh Krishna.