India Cricket Captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday became the fastest batsman to score 12,000 runs in One-Day Internationals (ODIs). Kohli breached the mark in the third ODI against Australia in Canberra.
Kohli reached the milestone in the third and final ODI of the three-match series against Australia.
The 32-year-old Indian captain has taken 242 innings (251 matches) to score 12,000 ODI runs, 58 less than legendary Sachin Tendulkar who had reached the landmark in 300 ODI innings which makes up to 309 matches.
Ricky Ponting, the former Australia skipper stands third in the list as he had taken 314 innings (323 matches) to score 12,000 runs in ODIs. Followed by Kumar Sangakkara (336 innings, 359 matches), Sanath Jayasuria (379 innings, 390 matches) and Mahela Jayawardene (399 innings, 426 matches).
Virat Kohli made his ODI debut in 2008 against Sri Lanka and has scored 43 ODI centuries in addition to 59 fifties in a career that's spanned over 12 years.
Kohli has also played 86 Tests and 82 T20Is in which he has scored 7,240 and 2,794 runs respectively.
He has become the ninth Indian cricketer to make 250 ODI appearances scoring more than 221,000 international runs across formats till now.
Sachin Tendulkar owns the record for making the most ODI appearances for India. Having an outstanding career, Tendulkar played for 463 ODIs in which he scored 18,426 runs scoring 49 hundred’s.
Source: IANS