Top five batsmen with the highest average in International cricket 

#1 Virat Kohli (55.60)

One of the most mercurial players to have graced the game in the 21st century

Career Stats (Inclusive of all three formats)

Matches: 331 Innings: 365 Runs: 17125 Avg: 55.60 50s/100s: 80/56 200s: 6 Not Out: 57

One of the most mercurial players to have graced the game in the 21st century is India's skipper Virat Kohli.

The Delhi batsman rose to prominence after leading India to the U-19 World Cup win in 2008.

Kohli's sheer passion to win was an instant differentiator during that tournament, and he was awarded his debut as an opener in 2008 against Sri Lanka.

It was only in the December of 2009 that he gave a glimpse of his greatness when he scored his debut hundred in a run chase against Sri Lanka, and a slew of consistent performances and earned him a spot in the star-studded middle order in the 2011 World Cup.

Following his prowess in white-ball cricket, Virat was handed his Test debut against the West Indies in 2011.

After average returns in the three Tests and initial failures in Australia, Kohli scored a career-defining hundred at the Adelaide Oval in the fourth Test.

That hundred started Kohli's love after with the ground, that saw him hammer two more on his captaincy debut in the summer of 2014-15.

The legend of Kohli is primarily built on his immaculate game sense and playing risk-free conventional cricket by running plenty of ones and two's, a testimony to his supreme fitness.

Kohli's admittance to getting daddy hundreds has seen him score six double hundreds in two seasons triggering hopes of the inevitable triple hundred in the future.

Kohli has thus far represented India in 331 matches across formats and has amassed a staggering 17,125 runs at an average of 55.60 which includes six double-hundreds, 56 hundred and 80 fifties.