By the numbers: King Kohli's amazing 2016

1544 – The number of runs Virat Kohli has scored this year, the second most by a batsman in a calendar year in Twenty20s and 122 away from breaking Chris Gayle’s record who accumulated 1665 runs in 2015. Although there are still seven months to go, the IPL might be Kohli’s only chance to topple Gayle as the former does not play in the foreign leagues and India is not scheduled to play any T20I in 2016 apart from the Zimbabwe tour next month from which he has been rested.

102.93 – The batting average of Virat Kohli in T20s in 2016, the highest by a batsman in a calendar year with a minimum of 500 runs and there are 405 instances of batsmen scoring at least 500 runs in a year. The second highest is 68.25 by Hamilton Masakadza, the Zimbabwean batsman who has scored 819 runs from 16 innings, also in 2016.

151.75 – Kohli’s second-innings average in T20s in 2016. He has smashed 607 runs in chases in 11 innings with the help of one hundred and 6 fifties. He has been dismissed just four times when batting second, 93.90 per cent of his runs (570 out of 607) have come in successful chases.

4 – The number of T20 hundreds he has amassed in 2016, equal-most along with Chris Gayle (2011) in a calendar year. Incidentally, Kohli’s all four tons have come in the IPL. No other batsman in history has scored that many hundreds in one tournament. The previous record belonged to the Australian batsman Michael Klinger, who recorded three centuries for Gloucestershire in England's domestic T20 competition last year.

17 – The number of fifty-plus innings, including four hundreds, he has registered in 2016, the most by any batsman in a year and once again breaking the record of his Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate Chris Gayle who had 16 scores of 50 or more - three 100s and 13 fifties - in 2012. While Gayle needed 38 innings to have 16 scores of 50 or more, Kohli toppled him in just 26 innings. 

919 – The number of runs he has scored in IPL 2016, the most by anyone in any T20 tournament. The next highest figure in a tournament is 733, by Chris Gayle for RCB in IPL 2012 and Michael Hussey for Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2013. The highest outside IPLs is 710 by James Vince for Hampshire in England's T20 competition in 2015.

81 – The number of runs Virat Kohli needs to become the first batsman with 1000 runs in a T20 tournament. He has at least two matches and a maximum of three to reach this milestone.

6.67 – The increment in his career average that has come after the stunning run in 2016. At the end of the previous year, his T20 average was standing at 35.37 but after scoring 1544 runs this year it has jumped to 42.04 which is second highest among the batsmen with at least 2000 runs in T20s, behind only Gayle (42.16).  

625 – The number of runs he has scored in T20Is in 2016, already a record for a calendar year breaking the record of New Zealand’s Martin Guptill who had collected 472 runs from 2012.

199 – The number of runs he piled in the T20 series against Australia at the start of the year which is most by any batsman in a three-match bilateral series going past Kane Williamson’s tally (175 runs against Pakistan, also in January 2016). During the series also became the only batsman to hit 50 in each innings of a three-match series. He made 82 not out in his next match against Australia, in Mohali at the World T20, thus scoring fifty-plus in each of the four games against the Aussies in 2016.

273 – The number of runs he scored in this year's ICC World T20, the most by anyone in the Super 10s stage. He tallied 273 runs from five innings at a whopping average of 136.50. Although his team did not reach the final, he was named player of the tournament.

8 – The number of batsmen who have scored 6000 runs in T20 cricket. Virat Kohli joined the club during the course of his second hundred this IPL season. Of the eight batsmen, he (184 innings) is second quickest to the milestone behind only Chris Gayle (162).

1 – The number of batsmen who have scored 75 runs or more in four consecutive innings. Kohli this year became the first one to have this feat after piling on 82 not out and an unbeaten 89 in the last two games for India in the WT20 and then 75 and 79 in the first two games for RCB in the IPL. The 82 against Australia was also the highest score by any Indian in a chase in T20Is.

11 – The number of player-of-the-match awards that Kohli has received in T20s in 2016, five more than the next best Rohit Sharma (6). AB de Villiers and Tamim Iqbal have four each.

3,600,000 – While the numbers from Kohli’s bat have been incredible in 2016, another surprising figure that emerged was the money he has been fined. This year, from the IPL alone, he has been docked 3.6 Million Indian Rupees (approximately AUD 74,000) for failing to maintain the over-rate. In addition to that he was also docked 30 per cent of his match fee for showing dissent at umpire’s decision during the Asia Cup T20 in Bangladesh.