Port of Spain: India captain Virat Kohli smashed 42nd One Day International century of his career and in the process went passed former India skipper Sourav Ganguly's tally of ODI runs to become the second-highest runscorer for India in 50 overs format. Virat is now just behind all-time highest run-scorer of the format Sachin Tendulkar.
Ganguly scored 11,221 runs in 297 innings while Kohli took 229 innings to go past the former skipper.
Soon after Kohli broke his record, Ganguly tweeted: "Virat kohli another master class in one day cricket @imVkohli @BCCI .. what a player."
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Virat kohli another master class in one day cricket @imVkohli @BCCI .. what a player
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— Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) August 11, 2019Virat kohli another master class in one day cricket @imVkohli @BCCI .. what a player
— Sourav Ganguly (@SGanguly99) August 11, 2019
Thirty-year-old Kohli is now only behind Sachin Tendulkar, who has a whopping 18,426 runs to his name which he accumulated over 452 innings. Kohli is now the seventh-highest run-scorer in ODIs overall behind Jacques Kallis, Inzamam-Ul-Haq, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara and Tendulkar.
During the course of his knock, Kohli also surpassed Javed Miandad's tally of 1,930 runs to become the highest run-scorer in ODIs against the West Indies.
