Virat Kohli's record-breaking decade: Over 20k runs, becoming most successful Test skipper and ICC heartbreaks

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"Sachin Tendulkar was an emotion. Virat Kohli is an experience." A popular social-media account by the name of Trendulkar is reckoned to have posted these words following Kohli's match-winning 82* against Australia to guide India into World T20 semis. Kohli was by then half-way through this record-breaking decade and had already broken away from the shackles of the popular opinion of him being a brash kid in love with himself. The latter phrase indeed defined the chubby-faced kid who had already cemented his place in Indian limited-overs team at the turn of this decade. But by then he had already created a separate fan base for himself comprising veterans as well, with his special natural talent.

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