Vadodara
\nIndia\u2019s star batter Virat Kohli added another chapter to his illustrious career on Sunday, becoming the fastest player to reach 28,000 runs in international cricket during the ODI series opener against New Zealand, surpassing the long-standing record held by Sachin Tendulkar.
\nKohli achieved the feat in just 624 innings, eclipsing Tendulkar\u2019s mark of 644 innings and Sri Lanka\u2019s Kumar Sangakkara\u2019s 666 innings.
\nIn the process, he also surpassed Sangakkara\u2019s tally of 28,016 runs, now trailing only Tendulkar\u2019s career total of 34,357 international runs.
\nComing into the match, Kohli needed 25 runs to reach the milestone. He brought it up in style with a boundary in the 12th over and later went past Sangakkara\u2019s total with a single off Michael Bracewell on the last ball of the 18th over.
\nFastest to 28,000 international runs
\nVirat Kohli \u2013 624 innings
\nSachin Tendulkar \u2013 644 innings
\nKumar Sangakkara \u2013 666 innings
\nPut into bat first, New Zealand posted a competitive 300-8 in their 50 overs, with Daryll Mitchell top-scoring with 84.
\nIndia\u2019s reply began steadily, with Rohit Sharma and returning Shubman Gill putting on a 39-run opening partnership.
\nAfter Rohit fell for 26, Kohli anchored the innings, forming a 118-run partnership with Gill.
\nGill contributed 56 off 71 balls, while Kohli dominated proceedings until the first ball of the 39th over, when he was caught for 93 off 91 balls, striking eight fours and a six.
\nIndia eventually sealed a thrilling four-wicket victory over the Black Caps in the final over, with KL Rahul remaining unbeaten on 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vadodara India\u2019s star batter Virat Kohli added another chapter to his illustrious career on Sunday, becoming the fastest player to reach 28,000 runs in international cricket during the ODI series opener against New Zealand, surpassing the long-standing record held by Sachin Tendulkar. Kohli achieved the feat in just 624 innings, eclipsing Tendulkar\u2019s mark of 644 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":92171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92179,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92158\/revisions\/92179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}