India, Dec. 8 -- The scariest thing about Virat Kohli in 2025 is that his numbers look like 2016 again - only louder.

At 37, what is effectively an ODI-only avatar, he is scoring at the same outrageous average as his prime, while hitting sixes far more often than he did in his twenties.

Put simply, the younger Kohli assassinated with consistency and percentage cricket; the current one hurts you more with his six-hitting prowess. Is this updated version of Kohli even more dangerous than the 2016-18 version? Let us delve deeper into this argument.

Take 2011 to 2018, the era everyone calls peak Virat Kohli. Across those eight years, he played 171 ODI innings, scored 8,753 runs, and was dismissed 139 times. That works out to an average of ...