Adding another feather to his over-crowded hat, India’s captain in all formats Virat Kohli surpassed Sachin Tendulkar to became the fastest cricketer to cross the 10,000-run mark in the One Day Internationals (ODIs). The India captain reached the milestone in just 205 innings – 54 innings less than the now second-fastest, Tendulkar.
Kohli became the 13th cricketer and fifth Indian to achieve the feat during India’s second ODI against the West Indies at Visakhapatnam. Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni are the only other Indian cricketers to have reached this milestone in their careers.
While during his 82 run innings against Australia in the first innings of Melbourne Test, he surpassed Rahul Dravid’s record of most runs scored by an Indian batsman at foreign soil in a calender year.
In the summer of 2018, Virat also improved his record at English soil and compiled to score 593 runs in five Tests.
Also during the five match ODI series against West Indies in October, he scored three back to back centries in the first three games of the series.
And after India’s win at Adelaide by 31 runs, he also became the first Asian skipper to win Test matches in South Africa, England and Australia in a single year.