Virat Kohli leaves behind Sachin Tendulkar to score fastest 25000 runs in international cricket

Virat Kohli registered a unique record in the second Test match between Australia and India on Sunday. Kohli left behind star players Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting to score the fastest 25,000 runs in international cricket. He is the only active player to achieve this feat. India former skipper Kohli crossed the mark in style by hitting a boundary. He achieved the milestone in just 31313 balls and in 549 innings.

Players to score fastest 25000 runs in international cricket:

Virat Kohli: 549 innings

Sachin Tendulkar - 577 innings

Ricky Ponting - 588 innings

In th escored 20 runs off 31 balls including 3 boundaries before getting dismissed on todd Murphy's delivery. Interestingly, it was the first time in his career that he got stumped out in Test cricket. In the international cricket, Virat has scored 25012 runs off 549 innings with the highest score of 254. His average runs are 53.55 and has a strike-rate of 79.82. In his international career, he has smashed 74 centuries and 129 fifties.



He has hammerred 2482 boundaries and 278 sixes.

In the previous innings of India Virat scored 44 runs but had to make his way back to the hut after a controvertial dismissal. Here's look at Kohli's performance in previous 5 innings.

IND vs AUS: 20 runs

IND vs AUS: 44 runs

IND vs AUS: 12 runs

IND vs BAN: 1 run

IND vs BAN: 24 runs

In the 2nd Test match, Australia won the toss and decided to bat. Batting first, Australia got all out for 263 runs. In the second innings of the match, Team India could not manage to take the lead and got all out for 262 runs. Australia had a 1-run lead at the end of the Indian innings. The match was almost evenly matched, with Australia taking a lead of 62 runs for the loss of one wicket on the second day of the match. It was believed that the Kangaroo team could create pressure on Team India by getting a big lead in this match, but this did not happen and the pair of Jadeja and Ashwin got Australia all out. Team India eyes to win the 2nd Test match.