Virat Kohli has made a habit of breaking cricket records with ease and he recently surpassed the 11,000 run mark in the ongoing world cup. He surpassed the record of the great Sachin Tendulkar to become the fastest to reach the milestone.
Another Sachin Tendulkar’s record will be at stake as Virat Kohli is just 37 runs away from being the fastest to 20,000 International runs. The Indian captain currently stands with 19,963 international runs in 131 in Tests, 223 in ODIs, 62 in T20Is constituting 416 innings. Sachin Tendulkar and West Indies legend Brian Lara reached the 20,000 run mark in 453 innings followed by Ricky Ponting who reached the milestone in 468 innings.
After completing the 20,000 run mark, Kohli will become the 12th man and the 3rd Indian to reach the milestone after Sachin Tendulkar(34,357 runs) and Rahul Dravid(24,208 runs)..
Kohli’s journey so far in the world cup
The Indian captain is not in the best of form in the ongoing world cup, having scored 18 against South Africa. He showed some class and played a blistering innings of 82 runs against Australia followed by a 77 run innings against arch-rivals Pakistan.
He was expected to score a big hundred against minnows Afghanistan but despite getting a start, he was not timing the ball in latter part of his innings and perished to Mohammad Nabi on 67. All the other three members of Fab four(Kane Williamson, Joe Root and Steve Smith) have scored a century and a big hundred will be due from Virat Kohli when India takes on West Indies on 27th June.
