Virat Kohli’s 9 international wickets in his career so far, know who all Virat has dismissed

Today in the world cricket, Virat Kohli needs no introduction. He is a name to reckon with in the cricket world, be it Test cricket, one-day or T20. Virat has left a strong mark in every format of cricket. He made his one-day debut on 18 August 2008 and so far he has scored 13848 runs at an average of 59, in which he has scored 50 centuries and 72 half-centuries. He has displayed his talent in Test cricket as well. There is hardly any other batsman like him in world cricket even in the shortest format of cricket, i.e. T20 cricket.

Cricket fans all over the world are crazy about Virat’s batting, but only a few people would have seen him bowling. Virat sometimes also bowls right arm medium and you will be surprised to know that Virat Kohli has taken 9 wickets in international cricket so far with his bowling. Today we are going to tell you about those players who have been out on Virat’s ball.

Virat took his first wicket by dismissing English batsman Kevin Pietersen. The first ball that Virat bowled in international cricket was a wide ball and he got Kevin’s wicket on the same ball. He also made a record of taking his first wicket without bowling a valid ball.

Virat made his second victim English batsman Alastair Cook. When Cook and Jonathan Trott were making a big partnership, the captain brought Virat in for bowling and he bowled Alastair Cook on the fourth ball of his over.

Virat’s third wicket was also of an English batsman when he bowled Craig Kieswetter with one of his beautiful Yorker.

Virat Kohli got his fourth wicket by dismissing New Zealand’s dashing batsman Brendon McCullum. When McCullum was batting very aggressively, Kohli was brought on the attack and he got McCullum caught out.

After hitting a six on the first ball, Virat Kohli dismissed South African wicketkeeper batsman Quinton De Kock on the very next ball.

Virat Kohli probably enjoys getting English players out because his sixth victim was also an English player, Summit Patel.

Although Virat has troubled the Pakistanis many times with his brilliant batting, but once he also showed them his bowling skills by dismissing Mohammad Hafeez.

In the 2016 World Cup, when all the bowlers were unsuccessful in breaking the partnership, then Virat gave a big breakthrough to India by bowling a magic ball and dismissing the dangerous West Indies batsman Johnson Charles.

Virat took his ninth wicket by dismissing Netherlands batsman Scott Edwards.

Although Virat Kohli always gives a tough time to his opponents with his bat, but whenever the team needs, he also has the ability to take the Indian team out of trouble with his bowling. In today’s era, there is no other batsman in the cricket world greater than Virat Kohli and this has been said by many great cricket legends like Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, and the great fast bowler of his time, Wasim Akram, has also openly called Virat the greatest batsman of the present time.