NEW DELHI – Indian captain Virat Kohli became the fastest to complete 3,000runs in One Day Internationals. He achieved this feat in the third andfinal ODI against England at Headingley, Leeds on Tuesday.
As captain, Kohli has taken 49 innings to cross 3,000 in the ODIs. Withthis milestone, Kohli joins the elite league of fewest to 3,000 runs,previously held by South Africa’s AB de Villiers and former Indian skipperMS Dhoni.
While Ab de Villiers achieved the milestone in 60 innings, Dhoni reached itin 70 innings.
Virat Kohli was also the fastest to reach 1,000 and 2,000 ODI runs ascaptain. He scored 1,000 runs as captain when he scored 55 off 63 balls inthe third ODI against England at Eden Gardens in 2017. He completed 2,000runs later that year against Australia in the fourth ODI in Bengaluru.
The right-hander took 17 innings for the 1,000-run mark and used 36 inningsto notch up 2,000 runs as captain.
Kohli went past the 2000-run mark against Australia in the fourth match ofthe five-ODI series in Bangalore.
Virat Kohli has captained India to 39 wins out in 52* matches, batting atan average of over 80 and eyes his side’s 10th successive ODI-series winagainst England in India’s long English tour.
He took over the limited-overs reigns from Mahendra Singh Dhoni after thelatter had stepped down from captaincy in January 2017. Earlier, Kohli hadalso replaced Dhoni as India’s Test skipper in 2014.