Virat Kohli: Performance with an attitude

The great Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill once said, "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." No one symbolizes the attitude and the aspirations of the urban modern day Indian youth more than India's number 3 in ODIs - Virat Kohli. Kohli is a transformed man. From a typical Delhi brat, he has undergone a renaissance change, accepted responsibility and made giant strides, especially in the shorter formats of the game. Kohli is both, a product and a reflection of Generation X - to dream big, to work hard to achieve those dreams, to rise amongst adversity and cut-throat competition, to take no inch and give none and to have the courage, the ability and the mental toughness to defy all odds and come out triumphant. His achievements in ODI cricket are nothing but phenomenal. His conquests on the cricket field, from Mirpur to Hobart to Nagpur are reminiscent of those of Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte during their early days in war - ruthlessly steamrolling everyone who comes his way! And thus comparisons with the great Sir Vivian Richards do not come as a surprise. Richards is widely regarded as the best, most aggressive and most ruthless batsmen the game has ever seen and in many ways Kohli has matched his style, swagger and statistics! We try and look at some numbers which have made Virat Kohli unarguably the leading ODI batsman in contemporary ODI cricket:A comparison with ODI greatsQualification: minimum of 75 ODI matches and Product of Average and Strike Rate above 30 Ranking in terms of Product of Average and Strike Rate