Who’s better: Joe Root vs Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli vs Joe Root in Test

Virat Kohli (IND)		Joe Root (ENG)
Nov 5, 1988	Date of birth	Dec 30, 1990
29 years	Age	27 years
vs WI in Jamaica, Jun 20, 2011	Test debut	vs IND in Nagpur, Dec 13, 2012
No. 4 (top-order batsman)	Batting position	No. 4/3 (top-order batsman)
Right-hand batsman	Batting style	Right-hand batsman
vs SA at Wanderers, Jan 27, 2018	Last Test	vs PAK at Headingley, Jun 1, 2018
No. 2	ICC Test ranking	No. 3
71 (122)	Tests (inns)	74 (135)
6147	Test runs	6279
53.92	Average	51.04
8	Not outs	12
6	Double centuries	2
3	150s	4
23	100s	14
19	50s	41
16	100s as captain	3
11	100s overseas	3
10	100s at home	10
6 vs AUS, 5 vs SL, 4 vs ENG, 3 vs NZ, 2 vs SA, 1 vs BAN, 1 vs WI	100s by opponent	4 vs IND, 3 vs AUS, 2 vs SA, 2 vs WI, 1 vs NZ, 1 vs PAK, 1 vs SL
58.22	Strike rate	55.20
243 vs Sri Lanka at Kotla, Delhi	Highest score	254 vs Pakistan at Old Trafford, Manchester
685	4s	716
18	6s	17
Matches 40; won 22, drawn 9, lost 9	Captaincy record	Matches 21; won 10, drawn 2, lost 9
The first batsman ever to score double centuries in four consecutive Test series 11th Indian batsman to score 5000 Test runs The first batsman to score six double hundreds as captain Highest run-scorer for an Indian batsman in a three-match Test series (610 runs against Sri Lanka 2017), and the fourth-highest overall Kohli-led India hold the record for the joint-most consecutive Test series wins (9) First Indian Test captain to score a double century overseas Most Test runs in 2012 (689), 2015 (640) and 2016 (1215) by an Indian Most Test centuries as captain of India (15) Second-fastest Indian batsman to 6000 runs in Test cricket	Test records	Only the second batsman to score half-centuries in 12 consecutive Tests Root’s 1385 Test runs in 2015 were the second most by an Englishman in a calendar year Most runs in Test in 2016 (1477) and the second-highest run scorer in Test in 2015 (1385) Part of Wisden Cricketers of the Year 2014 England’s Test Cricketer of the Year 2016

Kohli vs Root in ODI

Virat Kohli (IND)		Joe Root (ENG)
vs SL in Dambulla, Aug 18, 2008	ODI debut	vs IND in Rajkot, Jan 11, 2013
No. 3 (top-order batsman)	Batting position	No. 3/4 (top-order batsman)
Right-hand batsman	Batting style	Right-hand batsman
vs SA in Centurion, Feb 16, 2018	Last ODI	vs AUS in Manchester, Jun 24, 2018
No. 1	ICC ODI ranking	No. 6
211 (203)	ODIs (inns)	116 (110)
9779	ODI runs	4800
58.20	Average	51.61
35	Not outs	17
3	150s	0
35	100s	13
48	50s	28
17	100s overseas	6
14	100s at home	6
8 vs SL, 5 vs AUS, 5 vs NZ, 4 vs SA, 4 vs WI, 3 vs ENG, 3 vs BAN, 2 vs PAK, 1 vs ZIM	100s by opponent	3 vs NZ, 2 vs WI, 2 vs SA, 2 vs SL, 2 vs IND, 1 vs BAN
92.12	Strike rate	86.83
183 vs Pakistan in Mirpur	Highest score	133* vs Bangladesh at The Oval, London
910	4s	381
104	6s	40