Senior batter Virat Kohli leapfrogged ex-captain MS Dhoni to change into the second-most-capped worldwide cricketer for India throughout codecs through the first Take a look at in opposition to New Zealand on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Kohli marked his 536th worldwide look when he took the sector right here on Thursday . Dhoni, alternatively, featured for India in 535 worldwide macthes between 2004 and 2019. After making his worldwide debut in an ODI in Sri Lanka in 2008, Kohli has been a part of 115 Exams, 295 ODIs, and 125 T20Is, scoring 27,041 worldwide runs. He additionally captained India in 213 matches – 68 Exams, 95 ODIs, and 50 T20Is.

Kohli is now solely behind legendary batter Sachin Tendulkar, who has 664 caps taking part in for India from 1989 to 2013 and likewise has the file of most being the capped worldwide cricketer on the earth. Amongst lively cricketers, Kohli is adopted by India captain Rohit Sharma (486 caps) and Ravindra Jadeja (346 caps) within the listing.

When it comes to Take a look at appearances for India, The 35-year-old is tied for eighth with 116th caps and. He additionally amassed 8947 runs within the longer format, simply 53 runs in need of changing into solely the fourth Indian to finish 9000 runs in Exams after Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar.

Furthermore, Kohli has change into the quickest participant to achieve 27,000 worldwide runs on Day 4 of the second Take a look at in opposition to Bangladesh final month, surpassing Tendulkar’s file of 623 innings as he achieved the feat in simply 594, the one cricketer ever to complete 27000 worldwide runs in underneath 600 outings.

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