V Kohli earns two records of which one is dubious

V Kohli earns two records of which one is dubious

V Kohli scored 60 in this game which represents his 32nd fifty in T20Is. He now holds the record for most fifties by a batsman in T20Is. He went past RG Sharma who had scored 31 fifties {04C + 27 HC}

NoRunsPosIOppositionGroundStart Date
16831v Sri LankaPallekele07 Aug 2012
27022v New ZealandChennai11 Sep 2012
35031v AfghanistanCol-RPS19 Sep 2012
478*32v PakistanCol-RPS30 Sep 2012
55432v West IndiesMirpur23 Mar 2014
657*32v BangladeshMirpur28 Mar 2014
772*32v South AfricaMirpur04 Apr 2014
87731v Sri LankaMirpur06 Apr 2014
96632v EnglandBirmingham07 Sep 2014
1090*31v AustraliaAdelaide26 Jan 2016
1159*31v AustraliaMelbourne29 Jan 2016
125032v AustraliaSydney31 Jan 2016
1356*32v Sri LankaMirpur01 Mar 2016
1455*32v PakistanKolkata19 Mar 2016
1582*32v AustraliaMohali27 Mar 2016
1689*31v West IndiesWankhede31 Mar 2016
178232v Sri LankaCol-RPS06 Sep 2017
186542v New ZealandRajkot04 Nov 2017
1961*32v AustraliaSydney25 Nov 2018
2072*31v AustraliaBengaluru27 Feb 2019
215932v West IndiesProvidence06 Aug 2019
2272*32v South AfricaMohali18 Sep 2019
2394*32v West IndiesHyd-RGS06 Dec 2019
2470*41v West IndiesWankhede11 Dec 2019
258532v AustraliaSydney08 Dec 2020
2673*32v EnglandAhmedabad14 Mar 2021
2777*41v EnglandAhmedabad16 Mar 2021
2880*21v EnglandAhmedabad20 Mar 2021
295731v PakistanDub-DSC24 Oct 2021
305231v West IndiesKolkata18 Feb 2022
3159*31v Hong KongDub-DSC31 Aug 2022
326031v PakistanDub-DSC04 Sep 2022

V Kohli’s dubious record – His 60 in this game was in a losing cause to provide the tenth occasion of his fifty going in vain in T20Is. All such occasions are tabulated below.

NoPlayerRunsIOppositionGroundStart Date
1V Kohli702v New ZealandChennai11 Sep 2012
2V Kohli771v Sri LankaMirpur06 Apr 2014
3V Kohli662v EnglandBirmingham07 Sep 2014
4V Kohli89*1v West IndiesWankhede31 Mar 2016
5V Kohli652v New ZealandRajkot04 Nov 2017
6V Kohli72*1v AustraliaBengaluru27 Feb 2019
7V Kohli852v AustraliaSydney08 Dec 2020
8V Kohli77*1v EnglandAhmedabad16 Mar 2021
9V Kohli571v PakistanDub-DSC24 Oct 2021
10V Kohli601v PakistanDub-DSC04 Sep 2022

V Kohli now owns the record for most fifties by a batsman in a losing cause in T20Is. The previous record for most fifties by a batsman in a losing cause was held by F du Plessis with eight fifties.

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