During the third ODI between India and New Zealand, Indian captain Virat Kohli became the fastest to 9,000 ODI runs. In the process, the 28-year-old batsman broke the record that South Africa's AB de Villiers claimed earlier in the year, against the same opponents. He got to the milestone in his 194th ODI innings, which is 11 innings fewer than what his Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate took to reach the milestone.
That is not the only world record that he broke during his innings. Rahul Dravid previously held the record for being the quickest to get to 9,000 runs from ODI debut and was also the only player to have got to the mark within a decade of their debut. However, Kohli broke Dravid's record of 9 years and 322 days and also became only the second player to have breached the mark inside a decade from their ODI debut.
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AB de Villiers claimed the record in 2017, coincidentally also against New Zealand, breaking the record of 228 innings set by Sourav Ganguly, which stood for over 13 years. However, his record didn't even last a year as Kohli not only broke the record but also became the first batsman to breach the 9,000 mark inside 200 ODI innings.
Five Indian batsmen feature in the list of top ten quickest to 9,000 ODI runs, which is the most for any country. South Africa have two players while Australia, West Indies and Pakistan all have one player each.
apart from that On Jan 20, 2016, Virat Kohli was involved in a 200-run partnership for the eighth time, the most by any cricketer in ODIs, eclipsing the previous best of seven each by Sri Lankan Upul Tharanga and Australia’s Ricky Ponting. Virat alongside Shikhar Dhawan put on 212 runs for the second wicket against the Kangaroos at Canberra in a losing cause in January 2016.
andOn Dec. 11, 2016, Virat Kohli’s Test average surpassed over 50. He became the first and only player to have an average of over 50 in all three formats of international cricket.
andOn Feb. 10, 2017, Virat Kohli became the first batsman in Test history to score double hundreds in four successive series when he slammed a wonderful 204 against Bangladesh in Hyderabad. Kohli's first double hundred came against the West Indies, the second was against New Zealand in Indore while he struck his third against England in Mumbai.
and On June 15, 2017, Virat Kohli became the fastest to 8000 one-day international runs, breaking the record held by South African skipper AB de Villiers for nearly two years. De Villiers, one of the most destructive batsmen in modern-day cricket, reached the feat in 182 innings during a match against New Zealand in Durban on August 26, 2015. Kohli bettered that by a significant margin, taking only 175 innings.
Virat Kohli celebrated his rise to India’s Test captaincy by hitting his fourth century of the series in the fourth and the final Test against Australia in Sydney on Jan 8, 2015. With his scintillating knock of 140 at the SCG and his twin tons at Adelaide in the first Test, the Delhi lad became the first Test skipper in cricket history to score three hundreds in his first three innings.
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