Bengaluru: Team India's senior batsman Virat Kohli, despite being out for zero in the first innings in the first Test against New Zealand at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday, has become the cricketer who has played the second most number of international matches for India in all formats, surpassing former captain MS Dhoni. became.
Virat Kohli played his 536th international match as soon as he took the field here on Thursday. Dhoni, on the other hand, participated in 535 international matches for India between 2004 and 2019.
Having started his international career in ODIs in Sri Lanka in 2008, Virat Kohli has been a part of 115 Tests, 295 ODIs and 125 T20Is, in which he has scored 27,041 international runs. He has also captained India in 213 matches which include 68 Tests, 95 ODIs and 50 T20s.
Virat Kohli is now behind only batting great Sachin Tendulkar, who has won 664 caps while playing for India from 1989 to 2013. He also holds the record of being the most capped international cricketer in the world. Among active cricketers, after Kohli comes Indian captain Rohit Sharma (486 caps) and Ravindra Jadeja (346 caps).
The 35-year-old player is at eighth place in terms of most appearances in Test matches for India with 116 matches. He also scored 8,947 runs in the longer format, just 53 runs short of becoming the fourth Indian to complete 9000 runs in Tests after Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar. However, he was out without opening the account in India's first innings.
Additionally, Virat Kohli became the fastest player to reach 27,000 international runs on the fourth day of the second Test against Bangladesh last month. He overtook Tendulkar's record of 623 innings as he achieved the feat in just 594 innings. He is the only cricketer to complete 27,000 international runs in less than 600 innings.
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