The Indian captain Virat Kohli has been going through the darkest form of the purple patch in his current batting form in the recent times and has been able to win the games for his team more often than not after coming to bat on the field. In the ongoing tour to South Africa tour, he has scored a plethora of runs by scoring as many as four centuries in Test and ODI series combined.

Kohli also looked in sublime touch during the T20 Internationals as his average in the shortest format of the game is well above 50, which is very rare for a batsman. Despite having such a humungous record, Virat doesn’t even feature in the list of top 10 T20 players of Federation of International Cricket Association (FICA).

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FICA released the player performance index for the first time which has the swashbuckling hitter from Australia Glenn Maxwell at the no.1 position. Sunil Narine is second on this list who has been opening the innings in the T20 leagues around the world in recent times. The performance index is the first system to evaluate the cricketers’ performance based on both domestic and international cricket in the T20s around the world.

Virat Kohli absent in FICA’s list

Virat Kohli, who is third in the ICC T20I rankings for batsmen, is featured 13th on this list with 679 points behind the players David Willey and Shahid Afridi who are just above him. However, it is pretty surprising that the player with the average of over 50 in the T20 Internationals who smashes the runs with amazing consistency without having any conventional shots in his armory, is not even in the top 10 list of FICA.

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The only reason that possible for Kohli not being on the list can be that he doesn’t play in the various T20 leagues around the world. Even in the last season of IPL, Kohli willow didn’t bring out sufficient amounts of runs.

Here is the list: