THE GAME IN NUMBERS Tests · ODIs · T20Is · Men & women
crickrida
PLAYER RESEARCH · Men

Virat Kohli Test record against Australia

2011-12-26 – 2025-01-03 · Available official international scorecards

Virat Kohli complete career profile · More player studies

The record at a glance

This study covers 30 Test matches against Australia with recorded batting or bowling figures: 53 batting innings and 2 bowling innings. Matches with no batting or bowling entry for this player are outside this sample.

Batting runs and dismissals; bowling runs conceded and wickets
DisciplineInningsRunsWickets / outsAverageStrike rate
Batting532,2325143.7652.00
Bowling2260N/AN/A

Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; batting strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Bowling average = runs conceded ÷ wickets; bowling strike rate = legal balls per wicket. Rates require fully recorded inputs. A hyphen means unrecorded; N/A means a zero denominator.

Bowling economy: 2.88 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 54.

Batting milestones in this sample: 9 centuries and 5 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 4,292.

CAREER BY FORMAT

How the record developed

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

Test

Test · Runs by year
  1. 201111 runs
  2. 2012289 runs
  3. 2013284 runs
  4. 2014499 runs
  5. 2015193 runs
  6. 201746 runs
  7. 2018259 runs
  8. 201923 runs
  9. 202078 runs
  10. 2023360 runs
  11. 2024167 runs
  12. 202523 runs
Exact yearly figures · 12 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
202512231711.5028.3900108100N/AN/AN/A
20244716710027.8353.011014231500N/AN/AN/A
20235836018645.0052.021037069200N/AN/AN/A
202012787439.0041.48019018800N/AN/AN/A
201911232323.0038.9800405900N/AN/AN/A
20183625912343.1641.441127162500N/AN/AN/A
20173546159.2044.23004010400N/AN/AN/A
20151219314796.5059.381023032500N/AN/AN/A
20143649916983.1664.973154176800N/AN/AN/A
20134628410756.8051.071135255600N/AN/AN/A
20123628911648.1651.881133155720N/A2.88N/A
20111211115.5050.0000102200N/AN/AN/A

Home, away and neutral conditions

Setting follows the recorded host country. Unknown locations are retained as unknown; venue names alone are not guessed.

Opposition record by match setting
SettingMatchesBat innsRunsBat avgBat SRBowl innsWicketsBowl avg
Home111762739.1850.4400N/A
Away18341,54246.7252.4420N/A
Neutral126331.5057.7900N/A
SCORECARD MILESTONES

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

  1. First available scorecard

    Test v Australia · Melbourne Cricket Ground

  2. First century in this archive · 116 runs

    Test v Australia · Adelaide Oval

  3. Highest recorded innings · 186 runs

    Test v Australia · Narendra Modi Stadium

  4. Latest available scorecard

    Test v Australia · Sydney Cricket Ground

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
2025-01-03Sydney Cricket Ground3612--
2025-01-03Sydney Cricket Ground11769--
2024-12-26Melbourne Cricket Ground4529--
2024-12-26Melbourne Cricket Ground23686--
2024-12-14Brisbane Cricket Ground2316--
2024-12-06Adelaide Oval31121--
2024-12-06Adelaide Oval178--
2024-11-22Perth Stadium3100143--
2024-11-22Perth Stadium1512--
2023-06-07Kennington Oval44978--
2023-06-07Kennington Oval21431--
2023-03-09Narendra Modi Stadium2186364--
2023-03-01Holkar Cricket Stadium31326--
2023-03-01Holkar Cricket Stadium12252--
2023-02-17Arun Jaitley Stadium42031--
2023-02-17Arun Jaitley Stadium24484--
2023-02-09Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium21226--
2020-12-17Adelaide Oval348--
2020-12-17Adelaide Oval174180--
2019-01-03Sydney Cricket Ground12359--

This opposition study uses available scorecards in Crickrida’s twelve-team publication scope. It is a dated archive analysis, not a claim of complete career coverage. Read the coverage and calculation method.