It seems every time Virat Kohli comes down to bat these days he ends up setting a few records and reaching new landmarks.
On Tuesday, Virat Kohli played another superb inning in the second ODI against Australia. During the innings Virat became the 11th highest run-scorer in ODI cricket history. He went past Tilakratne Dilashan of Sri Lanka who has 10,290 runs.
While Dilshan scored his runs in 303 innings, Virat took only 210 innings to reach there.
Virat is expected to break into the top ten soon as there is no active batsman in that list.
| Batsman |
Runs |
Average |
| Sachin Tendulkar (INDIA) |
18426 runs |
44.83 |
| Kumar Sangakkara (Asia/ICC/SL) |
14234 runs |
41.98 |
| Ricky Ponting (AUS/ICC)` |
13704 runs |
42.03 |
| Sanath Jayasuriya (Asia/SL) |
13430 runs |
32.36 |
| Mahela Jayawardene (Asia/SL) |
12650 runs |
33.37 |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq (Asia/PAK) |
11739 runs |
39.52 |
| Jacques Kallis (Afr/ICC/SA) |
11579 runs |
44.36 |
| Sourav Ganguly (Asia/INDIA) |
11363 runs |
41.02 |
| Rahul Dravid (Asia/ICC/INDIA) |
10889 runs |
39.16 |
| Brain Lara (ICC/WI) |
10405 runs |
40.48 |
Kohli had scored 10,235 runs in 217 matches and 209 innings before the match.
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma added 54 runs for the second wicket. It means they have 4117 runs together in ODIs. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid also added 4117 runs together. However, Kohli and Rohit have done it in 30 fewer innings than Tendulkar and Dravid.
