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Virat Kohli Becomes Fastest Batter In History To 14,000 ODI runs
Follow UsKohli became the third batter in history after Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara to cross the 14,000-run mark in ODIs.
Virat Kohli continues to scale new heights in One-Day International (ODI) cricket, a format he’s considered one of the greatest ever at, if not the single greatest.
In the all-important Champions Trophy clash against Pakistan in Dubai today (February 23) Kohli became the third batter in history after Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara to cross the 14,000-run mark in ODIs. But he scripted history, becoming the fastest among the three - by some distance - to get to the landmark.
While Sachin and Sangakkara took 350 and 378 innings, respectively, to get to the landmark, Kohli got there in just 287 innings.
Kohli is now the fastest batter in ODIs to 8,000, 9,000, 10,000, 11,000, 12,000, 13,000 & 14,000 runs. He is also the only batter in the format’s history to have hit 50 tons. He went past Sachin (49 centuries) in the semi-final of the 2023 ODI World Cup against New Zealand at the Wankhede, a game that the Master Blaster incidentally watched from the stands.