Team India’s run machine Virat Kohli will be eyeing Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar’s historic world record. In the ODI series against New Zealand starting from December 11, Virat will want to repeat his performance against South Africa. Indian cricket team’s star batsman Virat Kohli has come very close to another big achievement in international cricket.
Virat is now just 25 runs shy of reaching 28,000 international runs. Once he crosses this milestone, he will become the third batsman in the world to achieve this feat and will break Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar’s world record for the fastest batsman to reach 28,000 international runs in terms of innings. Tendulkar reached the milestone in the fewest innings, batting 644 times to reach 28,000 runs, totaling 34,357 runs in 782 innings.
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Kumar Sangakkara, meanwhile, reached the 28,000-run mark in his final innings. He scored 28,016 runs in 666 innings and played his last international match against India in 2015. Speaking of Virat Kohli, he has now scored 27,975 runs in just 623 innings. At this pace, he could surpass Sachin Tendulkar’s record. Kohli has already become the fastest batsman to reach 10,000 runs in ODI cricket. He has scored 14,557 runs in 308 ODIs, including 53 centuries and 76 half-centuries.
Full squads of both teams:
India’s T20 squad: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Jasprit Bumrah, Abhishek Sharma, Harshit Rana, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Arshdeep Singh, Tilak Verma, Kuldeep Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Varun Chakravarthy, Shivam Dubey, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel (vice-captain), Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh.
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New Zealand T20I squad: 1. Mitchell Santner (captain) 2. Mitchell Bracewell 3. Mark Chapman 4. Devon Conway 5. Jacob Tuffey 6. Jack Foakes 7. Matt Henry 8. Kyle Jamieson 9. Bevon Jacobs 10. Daryl Mitchell 11. James Neesham 12. Glenn Phillips 13. Rachin Ravindra 14. Tim Robinson 15. Ish Sodhi
New Zealand ODI squad: 1. Mitchell Bracewell (captain) 2. Eddie Ashok 3. Christian Clarke 4. Josh Clarkson 5. Devon Conway 6. Jack Foakes 7. Mitch Hay 8. Kyle Jamieson 9. Nick Kelly 10. Jayden Lennox 11. Daryl Mitchell 12. Henry Nicholls 13. Glenn Phillips 14. Mitchell Starc 15. Will Young