Virat Kohli Surpasses MS Dhoni, Creates Impressive World Record!

Indian cricket team skipper Virat Kohli added another major accolade to his name during the series-deciding 3rd T20I against Sri Lanka in Pune on Friday.

Kohli became the second Indian cricketer to complete 11,000 international runs as skipper - a feat achieved only by Dhoni. Overall, he is the sixth international skipper to reach the mark.

Kohli reached the milestone in the 13th over while taking a single off Lakshan Sandakan.

Kohli also became the fastest captain (169 matches) to achieve the feat. The other captains to have achieved this unique distinction by scoring over 11,000 international runs include Ricky Ponting (15, 440 runs from 324 matches), Graeme Smith (14, 878 runs from 286 matches), Stephen Fleming (11, 561 runs from 303 matches), MS Dhoni (11, 207 runs from 332 matches) and Allan Border (11, 062 runs from 271 matches).

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl. “There might be dew in the second innings. Our top four batsmen need to get big runs,” Malinga said.

“We wanted to bat first as we wanted to do something different today. Trend is going towards team batting second. You can’t go into the match thinking you can only do well when you chase. We want to embrace difficult things also.” Kohli said.