Indian captain Virat Kohli achieved yet another milestone as he completed 19,000 runs in international cricket during his 23 runs knock against Australia in the fourth and final Test in Sydney.
Kohli, when on 11 in his 399th innings, reached the 19,000 international runs milestone and became the fastest ever to achieve this feat. The previous fastest was Sachin Tendulkar who took 432 innings to reach 19000 international runs.
Fewest innings to reach 19,000 international runs -
399 - Virat Kohli
432 - Sachin Tendulkar
433 - Brian Lara
444 - Ricky Ponting
458 - Jacques Kallis
Players to score 19000 or more runs in international cricket -
Sachin Tendulkar (34357)
Kumar Sangakkara (28016)
Ricky Ponting (27483)
Mahela Jayawardene (25957)
Jacques Kallis (25534)
Rahul Dravid (24208)
Brian Lara (22358)
Sanath Jayasuriya (21032)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (20988)
Inzamam ul Haq (20580)
AB de Villiers (20014)
Virat Kohli (19012)
Virat Kohli's international runs breakdown -
Format | Mat | Inns | Runs | Avg | HS | 100 | 50 |
Test | 77 | 131 | 6613 | 53.76 | 243 | 25 | 20 |
ODI | 216 | 208 | 10232 | 59.84 | 183 | 38 | 48 |
T20I | 65 | 60 | 2167 | 49.25 | 90 | 0 | 19 |
Overall | 358 | 399 | 19012 | 56.24 | 243 | 63 | 87 |