Best XI across all formats in 2019
One of the biggest challenges of modern-day cricket is to adapt to different formats and continue to be consistent and successful in each one of them.
3. Virat Kohli (c)
Year after year, Virat Kohli keeps scaling new heights. It was another year where he amassed more than 2000 runs in international cricket. It was his fourth successive year where he’s done that and has become the first player to do so as well. He finished the year 2019 with 2455 runs across formats which is the most by any batsman this year.
Kohli is a beast in ODI cricket and finished the year as the second-highest run-getter in the 50-over format. He made 1377 runs at an average of 59.86 which is almost the same as his career ODI average. He scored five tons and seven half-centuries.
As far as Tests are concerned, he was slightly more inconsistent when compared to the last few years. However, he still scored 612 runs at an average of 68.00 but scored just two hundreds. In T20Is, he found some of his lost form as well. 2017 and 2018 weren’t as good as the previous years but the Indian skipper has got going once again in 2019. The Indian skipper scored 466 runs at an average of 77.66 and a strike-rate of 147.93. Hence, despite being slightly inconsistent, Kohli still ended up leading the batting charts of 2019.
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