What if Virat Kohli played before the dawn of ODI cricket?

#4 India would never have gathered courage to chase in an ODI without a second thought

India’s chase master

Chasing down gigantic totals demands playing out of one’s skin to taste success at regular intervals. The fortunes of the chasing team require one mishap to shatter down and the scoreboard pressure adds to the challenges.

Virat Kohli is one of the key reasons why India never shy away from hunting down totals and astonishingly enough, he tends to win games single-handedly. In the pre-Kohli era, apart from a win here or there, India faltered in run chases and preferred setting targets.

More than the runs, it’s the way that the target is achieved that mesmerises the audience when Kohli is batting. His average in successful run chases speaks for itself and needs no reiteration. He grafts when the chips are down and accelerates at the right time to fuel a run chase.