Virat Kohli Tops Yahoo's List of Most Searched Sports Person for 2017

Virat Kohli is the undisputed no 1 in every field. He is the top ODI and T20I batsman, and he led the Indian team to be the best Test team in the world also.

 Now, Kohli has managed to become the top in Yahoo's most searched sports person for 2017. Also, he is the fifth most searched Indian too.

The top of the list there was Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.


It has been a brilliant year for the Indian, where he has scored more than 1,000 runs in Tests, and 1,460 runs in ODIs.

He has also managed to score a whopping 11 international hundreds this year across all formats.

Recently, when India beat Sri Lanka 1-0 in the three Test match series at the Ferozeshah Kotla in New Delhi, yet another milestone was unlocked for the Indian captain.

3-Match Test Series Results

First Test @ Kolkata Nov 16-20,2017
Scorecard
India 172 and 352/8 Declared
Sri Lanka 294 and 75/7
Match Result - Match Drawn
MOM - Bhuvneshwar Kumar(India)for his 4/88(27 Overs )and  4/08(11 Overs)

Second Test @ Nagpur Nov 24-27,2017
Scorecard
Sri Lanka 205 and 166
India 610/6 Declared
Match Result - India won by An Innings and 239 Runs
MOM - Virat Kohli(India) for his 213(267 Balls 4x17 and 6x2)
Series Result - India lead the 3-Match Test Series 1-0

Third  Test @ Feroz Shah Kotla Delhi Dec 02-06,2017
Scorecard
India            536/7 Declared and246/5 Declared
Sri Lanka    373 and 299/5
Match Result - Match Drawn
MOM -Virat Kohli(India)for his 243 and 50
Player of the Series - Virat Kohli(India)for scoring 610 Runs in 5 Innings(0 ,104*,213,243and 50)
Series Result - India won the 3-MatchTest  Series 1-0


India's  9 Consecutive Test Series Wins

Year        Vs                        Venue          No of Tests           Result

2015        Sri Lanka            Sri Lanka           03                     2-1
2015-16   South Africa       India                   04                     3-1
2016        West Indies         WI                     04                     2-0
2016-17   New Zealand      India                  03                     3-0
2016-17   England              India                  05                     4-0
2016-17   Bangladesh         India                  01                      1-0
2016-17   Australia             India                  04                     2-1
2017         Sri Lanka           Sri Lanka           03                     3-0
2017         Sri Lanka           India                   03                     1-0


The series win was a record equalling ninth for India which means Kohli, has now equalled former Australian captain Ricky Ponting’s record of the most successive series wins as captain.

The Ricky Ponting led Australia won nine series’ on the bounce from 2005 to 2008. Only once before has a similar feat been achieved, when England registered nine straight series triumphs between 1884 and 1892.

Kohli who won’t be playing the ODIs and Twenty20 series against the Lankans, finishes the year with 2818 international runs across all formats. He scored 1059 runs in 10 Tests, 1460 runs in 26 ODIs and 299 runs in 10 Twenty20 internationals including 11 hundreds (three double centuries).