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Virat Kohli aka “run machine” has seized a new record in his bag.
Virat Kohli is now the leading run-scorer for India in away ODIs. He has surpassed the great Sachin Tendulkar. India is playing the ODI series vs South Africa and it’s the first match of the 3 match series.
After scoring 296/4 in their 50 overs, the host looked into a commanding position from there. coming into bat India lost their new captain Kl Rahul early 12(17), when came Virat Kohli and formed a great partnership with Shikhar Dhawan 79(84). Virat scored 51(63) before getting trapped into the spin by Shamshi where he was trying to play a sweep.
Before getting out he made sure to have passed Sachin and become the leading run-scorer for India in white-ball cricket in most away games.
Here’s the table for the same.
Virat Kohli 5118
Sachin Tendulkar 5065
MS Dhoni 4520
Rahul Dravid 3998
Sourav Ganguly 3468
Virat also broke Ricky Ponting’s record of 5090 for most away runs, whereas Sangakkara remains at the top with 5518 runs.
India last week lost the test series to SA 1-2, and just after this Kohli stepped down from the Captaincy and shocked everyone.
India has lost 6 wickets and currently debutant V. Iyer and off-spinner batsman R. Ashwin is at the crease.
For the moment we have to wait and see where the result goes.
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