Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli both are pillars of the Indian batting department. Both are legends of ODIs and their ODI stats are phenomenal. In the upcoming Asia Cup, they both will play a huge role for India. In this article, we will do a stats comparison of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in Asia Cups.
- Matches – Virat missed the whole 2018 Asia Cup and that is why he played less number of matches than Rohit. Virat played 11 while Rohit played 22 Asia Cup matches.
- Innings – Virat batted in 10 out of 11 matches he played in ODI Asia cups, whereas Rohit played in 21 out of 22 matches.
- Runs – Despite playing almost half the matches as Rohit, there is not much gap between the runs of Virat and Rohit. Virat made 613 runs while Rohit made 745 runs in Asia Cups.
- Average – Virat Kohli’s average is far better than Rohit’s as Virat averages 61.30 while Rohit’s average in Asia Cups is 46.56.
- Highest score – Virat’s highest score in Asia Cups is also his highest score in white ball cricket. He made 183 against Pakistan. Rohit’s highest score in Asia Cups also came against Pakistan in 2017 where he made 111*.
- Centuries – Virat made 3 centuries in his Asia Cup career while Rohit made only one century in his Asia Cup career.
- Half centuries – In half centuries Rohit is way ahead of Kohli as Rohit has 6 half centuries while Kohli has only 1 in Asia Cups.