Kohli is currently ranked fifth, with Jayawardene falling to sixth. Kohli began the match needing 63 runs to overtake Jayawardene. The Indian batting legend had 12,588 runs to his name, while the Sri Lankan legend had 12650. In the process, he also scored his 46th ODI hundred.
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Virat Kohli, unquestionably one of the best batters of all time, reached yet another milestone in his remarkable cricketing career on Sunday as he crossed the 62-run mark in the third ODI against Sri Lanka in Trivandrum. With this hit against the Lankans, Kohli surpassed the great Mahela Jayawardene in the list of batters with the most ODI runs. Kohli is currently ranked fifth, with Jayawardene falling to sixth. Kohli began the match needing 63 runs to overtake Jayawardene. The Indian batting legend had 12,588 runs to his name, while the Sri Lankan legend had 12650. In the process, he also scored his 46th ODI hundred.
Kohli began the match needing 63 runs to overtake Jayawardene. The Indian batting legend had 12,588 runs to his name, while the Sri Lankan legend had 12650. The list is led by none other than Sachin Tendulkar, who has 18426 runs in the format to his name. Kumar Sangakkara (14234 runs), Ricky Ponting (13704 runs), and Sanath Jayasuriya (13430 runs) are currently ahead of Kohli. Earlier in the series, Kohli hit his 45th ODI century, a triple-digit total in the first ODI against Sri Lanka. Kohliβs second consecutive one-day century, having struck 113 against the Bangladesh Tigers in the third ODI of that series.
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