Virat Kohli, Most International Runs: Virat Kohli’s stature has started being counted in the list of the world’s biggest legends in international cricket. Whenever he comes on the field, a new record waits for him. Something similar happened against Bangladesh in the fourth match of World Cup 2023. Virat Kohli scored his third half-century in this World Cup and made many excellent records. But the most special record among them was the most runs scored in international cricket. After scoring his 67 runs, he also completed 26 thousand international runs.
Virat did what no one else had done…
Now he has become the fourth highest run-scorer batsman in the world. Apart from this, Virat has also become the fourth batsman to score the highest fifty plus score in international cricket. Not only this, in this innings Virat Kohli also scored 1000 runs while playing at number 3 in the ODI World Cup. He also became the first Indian batsman to do so in the history of ODI World Cup. Also, he completed 1500 runs while chasing in Champions Trophy, ODI World Cup and T20 World Cup. He also became the first player in the world to do so. In this innings, Virat Kohli also scored his 9th half-century in the history of ODI World Cup.
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5⃣0⃣ & counting!
Virat Kohli reaches his 69th half-century
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Top 5 batsmen who scored most runs in international cricket
- Sachin Tendulkar- 34357
- Kumar Sangakkara- 28016
- Ricky Ponting- 27483
- Virat Kohli- 26000 (innings in progress)
- Mahela Jayawardene- 25957
Highest fifty plus score in international cricket
- Sachin Tendulkar- 264
- Ricky Ponting- 217
- Kumar Sangakkara- 216
- Virat Kohli- 212
- Jacques Kallis- 211
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Virat Kohli’s bat has spoken strongly so far in the World Cup 2023. He pulled the team out of trouble in the first match and scored 85 runs on 116 balls. He also scored unbeaten 55 runs against Afghanistan. Then of course against Pakistan he was out after scoring only 16 runs. But today again he did wonders by hitting a fifty.
