India, May 18 -- It's been a little over a year since Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket, making him just a one-format international. It's a format that isn't played as widely now as it used to be before the 20-over revolution, but paradoxically, the 50-over World Cup remains the most coveted cricketing silverware, shading both the World Test Championship trophy and the T20 World Cup.

Kohli is the unquestioned boss of the modern 50-over game, even though he has some 3,500 fewer runs than the supreme master, Sachin Tendulkar. During the home World Cup in 2023, he went past the little man's long-standing record of 49 centuries; Kohli now boasts 54 hundreds in a tally of 14,797 runs (average 58.71, strike-rate 93.82). He...