-Vinay Kumar
The name of Virat Kohli, the former captain of Team India, is continuously adding some record or the other. The history of international cricket tells that Virat Kohli is the Indian captain who has won the most matches in Test cricket. Not only this, the record of scoring the fastest 10,000 ODI runs is also in the name of Virat Kohli. Now he has made another new record.
Virat Kohli has become the world’s highest run-scorer in 250 innings of ODI cricket. He made this new record in the second match of the ODI series against West Indies (West Indies vs India ODI Series, 2022) at the ‘Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium’ in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, 9 February.
Beats Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar
Team India’s prolific run-getter Virat Kohli scored 18 runs in the second ODI against West Indies (WI vs IND 2nd ODI, 2022). This was the 259th match of his One Day International career. Batting 250 innings in 259 matches, he has scored 12311 runs, which is more than the total runs scored by any batsman in the world. In this case, after Virat, the name comes after ‘Dada’ Sourav Ganguly, who was the strong captain of Team India. Sourav Ganguly scored a total of 9609 runs in the innings of 250 ODIs in his career.
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At number three is Sachin Tendulkar, who is called the ‘God of Cricket’, who scored 9606 runs in 250 innings. West Indies batsman Brian Lara West Indies scored 9354 runs, MS Dhoni 9338 runs, Australia’s great batsman and former captain Ricky Ponting scored 9293 runs, Jacques Kallis 9165 runs, Yusuf Yohana scored 9144 runs.
Significantly, Virat Kohli also became the 5th Indian batsman to play 100 international ODI matches on his country’s ground. Cricket world’s ‘Angry Young Man’ batsman Virat Kohli made another record as soon as he landed on the field in the second match of the series played against West Indies at ‘Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium’ in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, 9 February. . He played the 100th ODI match of his international career on Indian soil. However, he could not create a ruckus in this match.
History tells that Virat Kohli became the 5th Indian and 36th player in the world to play 100 or more One Day International matches in his country’s grounds. Before him, Sachin Tendulkar (Sachin Tendulkar) 164, MS Dhoni (MS Dhoni) 127, Mohammad Azharuddin (Mohammad Azharuddin) 113 and ‘Sixer King’ Yuvraj Singh (Yuvraj Singh) 108 ODI International matches in his career. Play.