Virat Kohli has became the fastest to reach 3000 ODI runs as skipper. He reached this milestone in the 10th over of the third ODI encounter against England in Headingley when he guided a short delivery from David Willey to third man for a single.
Virat Kohli took just 49 innings to reach the landmark – 11 innings faster than previous record holder AB de Villiers (60 innings). The other names on the list include MS Dhoni (70 innings), Sourav Ganguly (74 innings), Greame Smith and Misbah-ul-Haq (83 innings) and Sanath Jayasuriya and Ricky Ponting (84 innings).
Kohli looked in tremendous form against the England bowlers in Headingley and he had no problems in scoring his 48th ODI fifty. The skipper was forced to take charge early after the dismissal of opener Rohit Sharma in the sixth over and since then, Kohli has been dominating the proceedings. He was finally dismissed by Adil Rashid for 71. There are just two other batsmen who have achieved that feat apart from Kohli – New Zealand’s Martin Guptill (2271 runs) and compatriot Brendon McCullum, who has 2140 runs.
Kohli also went past the 700-run mark in 2018 in only nine ODIs. Three other batsmen (Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy and Joe Root) have scored more than 700 ODI runs this year but they have played more matches than India’s captain.
