Stats: Virat Kohli becomes the fastest batsman to score 11000 runs in ODIs

‘Train. Break Records. Sleep’ – This has been the routine for Indian skipper Virat Kohli and he achieved another massive milestone in 50-overs cricket. He entered the elite club of players with 11,000 ODI runs when he came out to bat in the game against Pakistan. The Indian skipper came in after the openers set a wonderful platform and played the second fiddle to Rohit Sharma initially.

But once the Indian vice-captain got out, Kohli shifted gears and hit a few great boundaries to accelerate things. He had to score 57 runs in this match to get to 11,000 ODI runs and he didn’t disappoint. Virat got to this milestone with a four in the 45th over of the Indian innings. In that over, he played a dot on the first ball and then hit a boundary off the following delivery when batting on 56. Hasan Ali bowled one delivery on the pads and the 30-year-old obliged by whipping it away to the fine leg boundary.

Virat Kohli takes 54 innings fewer than Sachin Tendulkar

Thus, he became the fastest player to get to the landmark going past the legendary Sachin Tendulkar. Virat achieved this feat in his 222nd innings, which is 54 innings less than the ‘Master Blaster’ who previously held the record. Sachin got to 11,000 ODI runs in his 276th inning against England in 2002. Virat was also the fastest batsman to score 8,000, 9,000 and 10,000 ODI runs.

While the 30-year-old reached the mark in his 230th ODI game, Sachin got there in his 284th match for India. The next on the list is former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting who took 286 innings. He is followed by the likes of Sourav Ganguly and Jacques Kallis who are the other two batsmen who took less than 300 innings to get to the landmark. They took 288 and 293 innings respectively to get there.

Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara scored the same number of runs in his 340th game and 318th innings. Next of the list is Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq followed by two other Sri Lankan greats, Sanath Jayasuriya and Mahela Jayawardene. They took 349, 363 and 394 innings respectively to reach this figure.