5 batsmen who could break Virat Kohli's records

#5 Joe Root

Joe Root has stated his intention to emulate Kohli's success in ODI cricket

English cricket’s blue-eyed boy Joe Root belongs to this list not just because he got to 3000 and 4000 ODI runs faster than Kohli but also because, in an interview to BBC, he openly admitted that he seeks to match Kohli’s record in ODI cricket.

His own record looks quite good, especially coming from a country where batsmen often found replicating their success in the longer format of the game to the 50-over game rather difficult. But Root hasn’t had this problem and though his rate of scoring a hundred, on an average - approximately every 10 games - doesn’t look comparable to Kohli’s corresponding stats.

There is no reason to not expect his numbers to improve in the coming years as well as his ability to turn fifties into hundreds. Being younger than Kohli means he too has age on his side and unlike de Kock, he has remained consistent in his career so far and has never really lost his form completely since becoming a regular member of the English team.

Among all the challengers to Kohli’s supremacy, Root seems most solid and reliable.