V Kohli’s another milestone – becomes the third Indian batsman to total 1000 plus runs in five or more calendar years.
V Kohli’s one day run aggregate at the end of the five match series against Sri Lanka read 1017 in the calendar year 2017. It provides the fifth occasion of V Kohli totaling 1000 runs in a calendar year. He became the third Indian batsman to perform the feat of scoring 1000 runs in a calendar year on five or more occasions. The others are – SC Ganguly {06} and SR Tendulkar {07}. The performances of these three batsmen are detailed below.
V Kohli became the first batsman to aggregate 1000 plus runs in the calendar year 2017. He reached the milestone when he was on 93 during the course of his knock of 110 not out against Sri Lanka at Col-RPS on 31.08.17. His run aggregate read 1017 at the end of this game
Another interesting stats about V Kohli is that he has scored four or more centuries in each of the five calendar years in which he has totalled 1000 plus runs. He is the only Indian batsman to perform such a feat
| No | Player | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | C | HC | 0 | Year |
| 1 | V Kohli | 34 | 34 | 5 | 1381 | 117 | 47.62 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2011 |
| 2 | V Kohli | 17 | 17 | 2 | 1026 | 183 | 68.40 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2012 |
| 3 | V Kohli | 34 | 30 | 6 | 1268 | 115* | 52.83 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2013 |
| 4 | V Kohli | 21 | 20 | 2 | 1054 | 139* | 58.55 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2014 |
| 5 | V Kohli | 18 | 18 | 7 | 1017 | 131 | 92.45 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2017 |
| 1 | SC Ganguly | 38 | 35 | 3 | 1338 | 113 | 41.81 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 1997 |
| 2 | SC Ganguly | 36 | 35 | 3 | 1328 | 124 | 41.50 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1998 |
| 3 | SC Ganguly | 41 | 41 | 3 | 1767 | 183 | 46.50 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 1999 |
| 4 | SC Ganguly | 32 | 32 | 4 | 1579 | 144 | 56.39 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2000 |
| 5 | SC Ganguly | 32 | 30 | 1 | 1114 | 117* | 38.41 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 2002 |
| 6 | SC Ganguly | 30 | 28 | 2 | 1120 | 98 | 43.07 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 2007 |
| 1 | SR Tendulkar | 25 | 25 | 2 | 1089 | 115 | 47.34 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1994 |
| 2 | SR Tendulkar | 32 | 32 | 2 | 1611 | 137 | 53.70 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 1996 |
| 3 | SR Tendulkar | 39 | 36 | 3 | 1011 | 117 | 30.63 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1997 |
| 4 | SR Tendulkar | 34 | 33 | 4 | 1894 | 143 | 65.31 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1998 |
| 5 | SR Tendulkar | 34 | 34 | 0 | 1328 | 146 | 39.05 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2000 |
| 6 | SR Tendulkar | 21 | 21 | 1 | 1141 | 152 | 57.05 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 2003 |
| 7 | SR Tendulkar | 33 | 32 | 2 | 1425 | 100* | 47.50 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 2007 |