Virat Kohli added yet another record to his name during his knock of 49 on the second day of the fifth Test against England at the Oval on Saturday.
He became only the fourth Indian to score 18,000 runs in international cricket and by doing so, he has joined the elite club of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly.
While Tendulkar tops the list with 34,357 runs in 664 matches with 100 hundreds and 164 fifties, Dravid is the next Indian with 24,208 runs from 509 games with 48 hundreds and 146 fifties. Next comes on the list is former skipper Ganguly with 18,575 runs from 424 matches with 38 hundreds and 107 fifties.
Kohli is now the fourth Indian on the list with 18,028 runs in just his 343rd game. The Indian captain has hit 58 hundreds and 85 fifties.
In the ongoing series in England, Kohli has already notched up 593 runs in nine innings at an average of 65.88 with two hundreds and three fifties. He is followed by England’s Jos Buttler on the runs chart with 349 runs from eight innings.
After stumps of Day two on Saturday, Buttler said that England are well in charge of the game so far.
Buttler's 89 helped England recover from 198-7 on Day one and score 332 runs in their first innings even as India struggled in bowler-friendly conditions.
"Yes, I think so (we are in charge of the game)," Buttler said to a question after the end of the second day here.
The lead at the moment is quite healthy, and I hope if we can back up the performance today we can be in a really strong position in the game." India still trail by 158 runs with 4 wickets remaining in their first innings.
Buttler had put on 33 runs with Adil Rashid and then 98 runs with Stuart Broad to bail out England.
Talking about his partnerships, Buttler said: "We probably spoke about 50 (more) runs that's what we were targeting. But I thought we worked really well in partnerships, and Rashid's got a lot of talent with the bat. And we know
Broad's scored some vital runs for England over his career as well.
"What that does is give you the confidence to stay in the same manner, and you don't have to change the way you're playing just because you're seven or eight down. We can just build a partnership as we did today," he added.
Indian skipper Virat Kohli again took the onus of scoring, as India struggled to 103-4 after being 70-1 at one stage.
James Anderson dismissed both Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane but couldn't get Kohli, despite a massive lbw shout.
Kohli eventually was out for 49 to Ben Stokes towards the end of the play as India slipped to 160-6 after losing Rishabh Pant as well.
"It's obviously a massive wicket. He's one of the best players in the world, and he's had an outstanding series. Any time you create a chance, or umpire's call early on can go either way, they are huge moments for us against a guy of that quality," said Buttler.
