Virat Kohli Surpasses Tendulkar to Become All-Time White-Ball Run Scorer

The run machine of the Indian cricket team, Virat Kohli, is the epitome of belief and hard work, which is clearly seen in his batting. Virat Kohli, the King of cricket, only plays the ODI and has taken retirement from the other two formats of the game. Virat is currently playing an ODI series against Australia, where he didn't get a good start and got out on a duck for the two successive innings for the first time in his long career in One Day Internationals. However, he bounced back in the last and third match of the ODI series, where he smashed a crucial half-century, which will help him with confidence in the future games for India, breaking several records yet again.

Virat Kohli White Ball Record: Leading Run Scorer

Virat Kohli has achieved yet another milestone in his illustrious career, breaking a record that belonged to the legendary Sachin Tendulkar. With a combined total of 18,443 runs in white-ball cricket—14,255 in ODIs and 4,188 in T20Is—Kohli has now become the highest run-scorer in limited-overs cricket. This remarkable achievement tells about his consistency, skill, and determination over the years, which make him one of the greatest batsman of all time.

Virat Kohli showed his class in the third ODI against Australia, where he scored 74 not out in 81 balls and smashed 7 boundaries. The run machine was also seen taking crucial runs between the wickets and created a match-winning partnership with Hitman Rohit Sharma, which helped India to avoid a clean sweep in the ODI series.

Virat Kohli Second Leading Run Getter in ODIs

Virat Kohli ODI record list is becoming long after every match. During the 3rd ODI against Australia, Virat played a tremendous knock of 74 not out, which showed his character in the game of cricket. This knock shut the mouths of critics after he faced two successive ducks in the first two matches of the ODI series.

Virat Kohli becomes the second leading run scorer in ODIs, where he surpassed the legendary Sri Lankan batter, Kumar Sangakkara. Virat has now scored 14,255 runs in just 293 innings, overtaking Sangakkara's score of 14,234. Virat has also become the fastest batter to achieve this feat by just taking 293 innings. He is only behind Sachin Tendulkar's score of 18,426, who is the leading run scorer in the ODI format.

Other Records Broken by Virat Kohli in IND vs AUS

Virat Kohli has broken several records in IND vs AUS, where some of them are big records, while others don't get any recognition. Virat Kohli has smashed the 24th 50+ score against Australia, which is the joint most with Sachin Tendulkar. Virat Kohli is insecond place for a player involved in the most 100+ partnerships, where he has been part of it 82 times.

Virat Kohli has broken another record for taking the most catches as a fielder in international cricket, overtaking South African legend Jacques Kallis, with 340 catches in international cricket, where only 4 players are ahead of him.