King Virat Kohli to break another Sachin Tendulkar’s Record

Virat Kohli is breaking every possible record in batting set mostly by none other than master blaster Sachin Tendulkar.

The King Virat Kohli is on australian tour and he is on verge to become the fastest batsmen to score 12000 runs in one day international. He is currently 133 runs away from reaching the mammoth mile stone of 12000 odi runs in international cricket.

Virat Kohli has been the most consistent batsmen of this generation across all formats. Only person who could challenge him for number one spot was ab devellers but he is retired from international cricket for some time now. No player of this generation can challenge the greatness of virat kohli every year he is breaking records and create new one which is majestic and stunning.

The record for fastest 12000 odi run is made by Sachin Tendulkar. He made his 12000 runs in 300 innings. Interestingly Sachin tendulkar was the first and also the fastest batsmen till now to score 12000 odi runs. Virat kohli till now has played 239 innings in which he had scored 11867 odi runs.Virat Kohli still need 133 and he is expected to complete this milestone in australian tour as he will play 3 one day international matches.

Virat kohli would be only 6th overall batsmen to surpass 12000 odi runs in international cricket. Apart from sachin, the other cricketers who crossed 12000 runs landmark in odi’s are Australian Great Ricky Pointing in 314 innings, srilankan elegent batsmen Kumar Sangakkara in 336 innings ,Srilankan destructive batsmen Sanath Jayasuriya in 379 innings and Srilankan crafty batsmen Mahela Jayawardene in 399 innings.

Next cricketer after virat kohli who is chasing 12000 mark is his Indian team mate the great Rohit Sharma but he will take time as of now he has made 9115 in 217 innings and it is unlikely that he will surpass virat kohli’s fastest to 12000 odi runs record. But let see how many more record will be break and made by virat kohli in future.