India and Bangladesh will commence their respective campaigns in the ICC Champions Trophy on the second day of the tournament. The match will be played in Dubai, and Kohli is all set to enter huge records against Bangladesh in ODIs. He is just 90 runs away from becoming the first Indian batter to scale 1000 runs against the Bangladeshi side in ODIs.
By now in his career, Kohli has amassed 910 runs from 16 innings in Bangladesh at a glorious average of 75.83 and strike rate of 101.78, with five centuries and three half-centuries against the name. In the same period, Rohit Sharma has scored 786 runs in 17 innings at an average of 56.14 with three centuries and three fifties. Thus, in case Kohli achieves this landmark in Dubai, he will be the seventh batter to score 1000-plus runs against Bangladesh in ODIs.
Until now, Kohli has managed to score 1000 runs or more against six sides: Australia, England, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and the West Indies. This feat is big, considering the kind of numbers Kohli has amassed in ODIs, having scored 13963 runs in 297 matches, maintaining an insurmountable average of almost 58, including 50 hundreds and 73 fifties.
Virat Kohli’s record vs major cricket-playing nations in ODIs
Country Runs scored
Australia 2367
Bangladesh 910
England 1397
New Zealand 1645
Pakistan 678
South Africa 1504
Sri Lanka 2652
West Indies 2261
Having regained his touch in the last ODI against England, the former India captain will hope to back it up with another big performance in the ongoing Champions Trophy. Kohli is the third-fastest and at the moment only 37 runs away from reaching 14,000 ODI runs.
