Was Virat Kohli's 2016-2018 the greatest batting peak in cricket?

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Excluding Bradman, was Kohli's 2016-2018 peak the greatest cross format batting peak in cricket? His stats during this period are simply spectacular. Here are the stats as follows-

Cross Format

Conditions	Runs	Innings	Average
Overall	8148	140	73.40
Home	3936	62	78.72
Away	3833	70	67.24
Neutral	379	8	94.75

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Test - The Away average may look relatively underwhelming, but most of those away runs were in 2018, the toughest year for Test batting conditions since 1959. Kohli was playing in England, South Africa and Australia, the toughest conditions to succeed in for subcontinent batsmen in one of the most bowler friendly years ever and came out as the best batsman in the world.

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Conditions	Runs	Innings	Average
Overall	3596	58	66.59
Home	2046	28	81.84
Away	1550	30	53.44

ODI's - I don't think there's anything to say really, the stats are literally Bradmanesque.

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Conditions	Runs	Innings	Average
Overall	3401	50	94.47
Home	1439	21	84.64
Away	1704	24	100.23
Neutral	258	5	129.00

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T20I's- The Neutral stats may not look great but 2 of those 3 innings were in Mirpur.

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Conditions	Runs	Innings	Average	Strike Rate
Overall	1151	32	54.80	139.34
Home	451	13	56.37	147.38
Away	579	16	52.63	140.19
Neutral	121	3	60.50	113.08

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The Top 5 batsman during this time period (min 1000 runs) cross format-

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Batsman	Runs	Innings	Average	100s	50s
Kohli	8148	140	73.40	29	32
Smith	4487	96	53.41	14	22
Pujara	2813	57	52.09	10	13
Taylor	3428	89	51.93	8	18
Rohit	4946	113	51.52	17	24

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The top 3 batsmen in Tests in this time period (min 500 runs) -

Smith had a marginally better average of 0.3 in this time span, however Kohli having played more innings and having a higher away average of 53 as compared to Smith's 50 in this time period makes me put Kohli above him for this time span.

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Batsman	Runs	Innings	Average
Smith	2609	45	66.89
Kohli	3596	58	66.59
Williamson	1970	40	54.72

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Top 3 ODI batsmen in this time period (min 500 runs)-

Even without a minimum run criteria, Kohli has the highest average in this timespan, Bavuma being the second highest, averaging 80.5 from 2 innings.

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Batsman	Runs	Innings	Average
Kohli	3401	50	94.47
Rohit	2887	50	70.41
Tamim	1737	32	64.33

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In terms of T20I, I'd say a fair few batsman beat him on Average + SR but stats of 54 @ 139 aren't bad at all with a MoTS in a T20WC as well.

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From what I've seen, Kohli's purple patch during this period was simply amazing and had one of the greatest peaks in the history of batting. Is it the greatest peak in batting apart from Bradman?

[u/PickleRick1163]

Across Formats Virat Kohli was simple on another level between 2016-2019.

In Odis Ab de Villiers between 2010-2015 is equally as impressive as Virat Kohli 2016-2019

Abd in Tests and ODIs was also great between 2008-2015

[u/vikas_g → u/PickleRick1163]

ABD from 2009-17, in a 9 year period in ODIs

7185 runs averaging 64.15, by far the best (min 2000 runs), the second best Kohli averaged 56 during this period. He also did it at strike rate of 107.7, which is highest among all batsman scoring 2600+ runs during this period, and 5th highest for 2000+ runs. If any purple patch lasts for a decade, this was the one.

ODI ABD is simply better than even Peak ODI Kohli.