10 years of Virat Kohli: In pictures

2014

2014 saw the transformation of Virat Kohli. He saw the extreme ends of the game where he just couldn’t score anything in England to scoring heavily in Australia. Barring that entire tour of England, Kohli had a decent year. He almost single-handedly won the World T20 for India. He was the Man of the Series in that World T20.

But then came the tour to England where he just couldn’t buy a run. He could only manage 134 runs in 10 Test innings and scored just 54 runs in 4 ODI innings. But then came the tour to Australia where he absolutely dominated the Aussies.

He made his captaincy debut in the first Test in MS Dhoni’s absence. He struck twin centuries and almost took India home in that first Test. He capped off the year with a brilliant counter-attacking 169 at the MCG.