BAN vs IND: The Indian cricket team is all set to resume their cricket action with the Bangladesh Test series, which will commence on the 19th of September. Once again, all eyes will be on Virat Kohli, the legendary player.
The 35-year-old has retired from the shortest format of the game, post India’s iconic T20 World Cup triumph. This also implies that he will be seen starring for India in the ODIs as well as the Test series from now on.
Virat is often compared with the likes of the legend Sachin Tendulkar, as neither of these two cricketers has maintained unmatchable records in the game. Kohli has broken many great records in cricket, of which many belonged to the little master.
In the last Cricket World Cup in 2023 against New Zealand in a semi-final match, he scored his 50th international ton, which broke Sachin’s record for 49 international ODI centuries. While Sachin Tendulkar yet has 51 test centuries and a record of 100 international hundreds, Kohli has 80, countering his record.
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Sachin has a great record of 18426 runs in his international ODI career; as for Virat Kohli, it didn’t seem very likely to be a broken record, as Kohli is nearly 4500 runs behind the Master Blaster, which doesn’t seem very likely for the 35-year-old to be broken.
Sachin has another invincible record as of now, where he has scored 34357 runs in the history of cricket, playing only ODIs and Tests with only a single T20I appearance where he scored 10 runs. Only Sri Lanka’s Kumara Sangakara and Australia’s Ricky Ponting have scored 27000+ international runs, and now Virat is knocking at the doorstep of a world record.
Among the three, Sachin has the record of achieving this great milestone in 623 international innings, with 226 Test, 396 ODI, and 1 T20I innings. He scored 27000 runs from 623 innings, while Virat Kohli has now scored 591 innings, and he is standing on 26942 runs as of now and is only 58 runs away from being the first to reach the landmark in less than 600 innings.
The Bangladesh Test might be the very first game where Kohli looks to achieve this great feat, as he would break the 147-year historical record in the sport.