Here are the statistical highlights of Virat Kohli's sensational 82 runs of 51 balls against Australia:
# Virat Kohli's unbeaten match-winning knock of 82 off 51 balls is his highest score in T20Is in India - his second highest in this format behind the 90 not out vs Australia at Adelaide on January 26, 2016.
# Kohli's excellent innings is the highest by an Indian batsman in successful chases in T20Is, bettering his own record. He had scored an unbeaten 78 off 61 balls vs Pakistan in a World Cup fixture at Colombo (RPS) on September 30, 2012.
# Kohli, with his aforesaid innings, has joined Chris Gayle (two centuries and 13 fifties)and Brendon McCullum (two centuries and 13 fifties), equalling a record for most fifty-plus innings in T20Is.
# Of his above tally, Kohli has 12 fifty-plus innings in a winning cause to his credit, equalling Brendon McCullum's tally.
# Kohli's outstanding average of 73.06 in Indian triumphs is the highest among the batsmen with 400 runs or more. Mike Hussey - 65.14 (456 runs in 15 innings) has the next best.
# Kohli has got his ninth Man of the Match award. Only Shahid Afridi has received more MOM awards (11) than Kohli.
# Kohli has been adjudged the Man of the Match three times in nine matches vs Australia - the most by a player against Australia, surpassing the two each by Chris Gayle, Umar Akmal and Yuvraj Singh. His superb tally of six MOM awards this year is the most by any player in a calendar year in T20Is, eclipsing the five by Shane Watson in 2012.
# The above stand is the first fifty-run stand by Dhoni-Kohli pair in T20Is. Their superb average of 84.66 is the highest by any Indian pair in T20Is - their tally being 254 runs in ten innings (seven times not out).
# Dhoni and Kohli were associated in a match-winning unbroken partnership of 67 - India's second highest for the fifth wicket vs Australia in World T20 next only to the 84 between Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh at Dhaka on March 30, 2014.
# Kohli took just 39 innings to reach his 1500 runs - the fastest by a batsman to this feat in T20Is.
# Kohli has posted four fifties vs Australia in consecutive innings in T20Is - 90 not out at Adelaide on January 26, 2016, followed by 59 not out at Melbourne on January 29; 50 at Sydney on January 31 and 82 not out at Mohali on March 27.
# Kohli's outstanding average in successful chases is 122.83 - his tally being 737 in 15 innings, includiing eight fifties - both records in T20Is.
(With inputs from PTI)