The unshakeable legacy of Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli could have ended up like any middle-class Delhi boy. Instead, he has hung up his Test match boots as one of the premier middle-order batters to have ever played the glorious game.

- Vivek Atray

Virat Kohli could have ended up like any middle-class Delhi boy. Instead, he has hung up his Test match boots as one of the premier middle-order batters to have ever played the glorious game. True, his batting average is below average, if one compares him with India's all-time greatest: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar. But to have scored as many as thirty centuries for India in whites, and to have led India to forty Test wins in 68 Tests when he was the skipper, denotes a legacy that is anything but average.

Indeed, the Kohli legacy is beyond words. He has exemplified a certain energy-permeated aura that few icons have ever done, in any era. To constantly remain so charged up all the time, whenever on the field, and to be able to maintain his sanity despite the unprecedented Instagram-enabled attention that he constantly garnered, is no mean feat.