Virat Kohli set a brand new milestone on Wednesday as he turned the quickest participant to achieve 16,000 Record A runs, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar and becoming a member of legendary names like Ricky Ponting and Graham Gooch.
Kohli achieved the distinctive milestone whereas representing Delhi within the Vijay Hazare Trophy match towards Andhra on the BCCI Centre of Excellence Floor 1 earlier right now, throughout which he smashed a quickfire century.
His 58th century led him to breach the 16000-run barrier in his 330th Record A innings, taking 61 fewer than Tendulkar, who now moved all the way down to second on the elusive record, that includes Australia’s Ricky Ponting, England’s Graham Gooch and West Indies Gordon Greenidge and Sir Vivian Richards.
Quickest to 16000 Record A cricket runs
- Virat Kohli (India) – 330 innings
- Sachin Tendulkar (India) – 391 innings
- Gordon Greenidge (West Indies) – 422 innings
- Ricky Ponting (Australia) – 430 innings
- Graham Gooch (England) – 435 innings
Notably, Virat Kohli now holds the document of being the quickest to every set of 1000 Record A runs from 10,000 onwards.
In the meantime, in Wednesday’s Group D match of the Vijay Hazara Trophy between Mumbai and Sikkim, one other former India captain, Rohit Sharma, etched his title within the historical past books with a monumental 155-run knock.
The correct-handed batter dominated the Sikkim bowlers, smashing them for 18 fours and 9 sixes on his approach to a swashbuckling 155 off simply 94 deliveries, serving to Mumbai chase down the modest 237-run goal for the lack of eight wickets and 117 balls to spare.
His monumental knock additionally drew him stage with former Australia cricketer David Warner on the summit of the record of batters with most 150-plus knocks in Record A cricket, as each batters now have 9 such innings to their names.
