India vs Windies | Records and numbers from Virat Kohli’s incredible day-out in Vizag
Virat Kohli had an incredible day out in Vizag as he carried on his superb momentum to complete 10,000 runs in his 205th innings - 54 innings faster than Sachin Tendulkar. While the pace is insane, here we, at SportsCafe, have gathered all the records that the Indian skipper broke today.
1 - Virat Kohli overcame Sachin Tendulkar to be the highest run scorer for India against Windies. While Virat Kohli has now scored 1684 runs against the team from the Caribbean, Tendulkar has 1573 runs for India against the same opposition.Â
2 - Virat Kohli became the second youngest player to score 10,000 ODI runs, achieving it in 29 yrs and 353 days, and he took the place of Ricky Ponting. Sachin Tendulkar still tops the list as he got to the mark when he was 27 yrs 341 days.Â
2 - Kohli became the second player to hit hundreds in three consecutive innings against Windies after Babar Azam in the tri-series in UAE in 2016. Kohli scored an unbeaten 111 in Kingston last July and followed it up with 140 in the first ODI in Guwahati and 157* today. Kohli became the first player to hit hundreds in three consecutive innings against two sides, having earlier done that against Sri Lanka in 2012.
2 - After Andrew Strauss, Kohli became the second captain to score two 150+ scores in ODI cricket. Both have done two times each.Â
5 - This is the fifth consecutive time that Virat Kohli scored a fifty-plus score in Visakhapatnam. His scores at the venue being 118, 117, 99, 65, 157.
6 - After this century - his third century against Windies in as many matches - Kohli has 6 ODI centuries against the Windies - the highest by any player. Hashim Amla, AB de Villiers, and Herschelle Gibbs have done the same five times each in their career.
9 - Virat Kohli became the ninth captain to score 8,000 runs in international cricket across all three formats of the game. He has done it in just 137 innings - the fastest to achieve the milestone.Â
11 - Kohli took just 11 innings to reach 1000 ODI runs in 2018 - the fewest innings by any player to reach the 1000-run mark in a calendar year. He broke the previous record held by Hashim Amla and himself, both 15 innings each, in 2010 and 2012 respectively.Â
13 - Kohli became the 13th batsman in world cricket to reach the 10,000-run milestone in ODIs.