Virat Kohli overtakes Brian Lara to break into top 10 of leading ODI run-scorers
Cricket | January 24, 2019 12:03 ISTVirat Kohli, who fell for 45 in Napier, now has 10430 runs from 220 ODIs at an average of 59.60.
Virat Kohli, who fell for 45 in Napier, now has 10430 runs from 220 ODIs at an average of 59.60.
Cheteshwar Pujara hit his third century in this tour of Australia and remained not out on 130 off 250 balls after day one of the Sydney Test
In an exclusive interview with IndiaTV, Brian Lara believes that there is no point making any sort of comparisons between Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar and Kohli.
Lara took to golf in 1994 after he beat Sir Garfield Sober's record of the highest Test knock and has won titles in the Caribbean.
Lara feels that nobody should sit in judgment to declare whether Viv Richards was better than Sir Garfield Sobers or Tendulkar was superior compared to Ricky Ponting.
Hetmyer bludgeoned his way to a 78-ball 106 in the first ODI against India in Guwahati, redeeming himself after a disastrous Test series.
Calling it a "great way to welcome the weekend", Tendulkar shared a picture and a video with the Windies' superstar on social media.
West Indies last drew an away Test series against India way back in 1994 when Lara scored 91 at Mohali.
Kohli has also joined the elite list of Indian players to complete 18000 international runs which only include 'Trinity' of former cricketers; Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly.
The India captain's next chance to gain more points will be either the one-off Test against Afghanistan in June or the five-Test series against England in August/September.
With this feat, Kohli also overtook Rahul Dravid, who has five double hundreds in his name, to join Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag in sharing the record of most number (six) of double centuries for India in Test cricket.
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