Virat Kohli has once again made a new record in international cricket. In the first ODI against New Zealand, he achieved a big achievement by completing 28 thousand international runs. The world that has reached this point

Virat Kohli has once again made a new record in international cricket. In the first ODI against New Zealand, he achieved a big achievement by completing 28 thousand international runs. He has become only the third batsman in the world to reach this milestone. Besides, by doing this fastest feat, he also broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar.

The first match of the three-match ODI series between India and New Zealand is being played in Vadodara on Sunday, January 11. In this match, Virat Kohli made another big history in his name. Kohli registered his name in the record books by completing 28 thousand runs in international cricket.

Virat Kohli needed 25 runs to reach this feat. He achieved this target in the 13th over of the Indian innings. By hitting a four on the fifth ball of the over, Kohli took his international runs tally to 28,001. With this, Kohli has become only the third batsman in the world to do so after Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara.

In terms of innings, Kohli has become the fastest batsman to achieve this record. Sachin Tendulkar had played 644 innings to complete 28 thousand runs, whereas Kumar Sangakkara had taken 666 innings for this. Virat Kohli achieved this milestone in just 624 innings.

Not only this, after scoring 42 runs, Virat Kohli also left behind Kumar Sangakkara’s figure of 28,016 international runs. With this, he has also become the second highest run scorer in international cricket. Talking about the batsmen who have scored the most runs in international cricket, Sachin Tendulkar is at the first place in this list, while now Virat Kohli has come at the second place and Kumar Sangakkara has come at the third place.

Batsman who scored most runs in international cricket

Sachin Tendulkar (India) , 664 Matches, 782 innings, 34,357 runs

Virat Kohli (India) , 557* Matches, 624* innings, 28,017+ runs

Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) , 594 Matches, 666 innings, 28,016 runs

Ricky Ponting (Australia) , 560 Matches, 668 innings, 27,483 runs

Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) , 652 Matches, 725 innings, 25,957 runs

Virat Kohli has scored 9,230 runs in 123 matches in Test cricket, while T20 In international cricket, he has scored 4,188 runs in 125 matches. Talking about ODI cricket, Kohli has so far scored 14,599* runs in 309 matches.