IND vs BAN: Virat Kohli becomes fastest player to score 27,000 runs, overtakes Sachin Tendulkar's record

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Virat Kohli reached a historic milestone during the IND vs BAN second Test at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur on Monday, becoming the fastest player in international cricket to score 27,000 runs. The former Indian team captain is only the fourth player to reach this mark.

35-year-old Kohli achieved the incredible feat on Day 4 of the second Test match in the ongoing Bangladesh tour of India. The star batter formed a strong partnership with KL Rahul on the day, scoring 47 runs from 35 deliveries before being dismissed by Shakib Al Hasan.

After reaching 27,000 international runs, Kohli became a part of an exclusive club, joining legends such as Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, and Kumar Sangakkara.

Interestingly, Virat Kohli reached the milestone in just 594 innings, shattering Tendulkar's previous record of 623 innings. Tendulkar had achieved the feat back in 2007, while Sangakkara reached the mark in 2015 after 648 innings, and Ponting followed in his 650th outing for Australia.

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Earlier in February 2023, Kohli had become the fastest batter to score 25,000 runs in international cricket, breaking another erstwhile record of Sachin Tendulkar by 28 innings. He then bettered the Master Blaster's record of scoring 26,000 runs by 13 innings in October, becoming the fastest batter in the world to reach that mark as well.

Other than his record-shattering performances in Test cricket, Kohli has also led the line in India's ODI matches. The New Delhi-born cricketer has 13,906 runs in 295 ODI matches for India in white-ball cricket with an astounding average of 58.18. As a result, the Indian star is on the verge of becoming only the third player to reach 14,000 runs in ODIs, alongside Sachin Tendulkar (18,426) and Kumar Sangakkara (14,234). Additionally, Kohli remains the only player in history with 50 ODI centuries.

Kohli is also only the third player ever to score more than 4,000 runs in T20 Internationals, even though the veteran batter has retired from the shortest format of the game in June 2024.