MUMBAI: And the records continue to tumble. Team I>ndia captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday broke the world record of the fastest 10,000 one-day international runs, needing only 205 innings to get to the mark. He surpassed the record held by Sachin Tendulkar, who achieved the feat in 259 innings.
Kohli reached the milestone while batting on 81 during the second ODI against West Indies in Visakhapatnam. He took a single to long-on off the bowling of off-spinner Ashley Nurse.
Tendulkar, who was the first in history to breach the 10,000 mark in ODIs, got there in 2001 against Australia in Indore.
Twelve other batsmen have scored over 10,000 runs in the format. Tendulkar leads the list with 18,426 runs while Kumar Sangakkara is second with 14,234 runs. The only other active player on the list is MS Dhoni, who passed the milestone against England at Lord's earlier this year.
Some of Kohli's most impressive numbers in ODI cricket (courtesy ICC).
58.69 – Virat Kohli's ODI average, the highest for any batsman with more than 2000 ODI runs
1 – Number of people with more ODI hundreds than Kohli - Sachin Tendulkar.
183 – Kohli's highest ODI score, against Pakistan in Dhaka in the 2012 Asia Cup
2 – Number of times, so far, that Kohli has won the ICC's ODI Player of the Year award. He first won it back in 2012 before repeating the feat in 2017
35 – Fastest man to hit 35 ODI centuries – also the fastest to 8000 and 9000 ODI runs
911 - The highest ever ICC ODI batting points ranking by an Indian – and the highest by any player for 27 years. When Kohli reached the mark in July, it gave him the seventh-highest ranking of all time, after Viv Richards (935 in 1985), Zaheer Abbas (931 in 1983), Greg Chappell (921 in 1981), David Gower (919 in 1983), Dean Jones (918 in 1991) and Javed Miandad (910 in 1987)
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