What I wrote on 25 April 2016:

"The Indians are playing a lot of shorter-format matches in the first half of this year, but they've got 14 Tests scheduled from June to December. Kohli is the only player who averages over 50 in ODIs and T20Is. My biggest hope for him is to become the first to average over 50 in all international formats. He ( Read more... )

A chronological list of his scores since the year started.

74 - T20 v West Aus ( Read more... )

TEST
26.95 - 1st match innings (HS: 119)
72.16 - 2nd match innings (169)
25.55 - 3rd match innings (96)
60.81 - 4th match innings (141)

ODI
41.23 - 1st match innings (138)
61.22 - 2nd match innings (183)

T20I
35.22 - 1st match innings (90*) [EDIT: After today's 89*, he now averages 40.16 in 1st match innings ( Read more... )

Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50
Tendulkar 114 184 19 9470 241* 57.39 33 37
Cook 125 224 12 9883 294 46.61 28 46
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Fourth final in five seasons. Third in a row. Two-time defending champions. Semi-finalist in 2009. Scraped through the league phase. Title-decider at home. Who writes CSK's scripts? MSD!

BATSMAN Mat Inn NO Runs HS Ave 100 50
Alistair Cook 77 135 8 6184 294 48.69 19 28
Sachin Tendulkar 76 121 12 6036 217 55.37 22 24

SRT @ 39Y 26D
Sachin Tendulkar 188 311 32 15470 248* 55.44 51 65Consistency at a very high standard. That's the key to any ambition Cook (or his ( Read more... )

The Sourav Ganguly tamasha that has afflicted Indian Cricket this past year has generated a lotta media hype, emotional reactions and whatever else you can think of. The man himself backs his case with random centuries against teams like Zimbabwe, Namibia and Kenya. He insists this is evidence of being good enough at the highest level ( Read more... )