New Delhi. Virat Kohli has achieved another historic feat in the first ODI match being played between India and New Zealand on Wednesday. After completing 12 runs in the match against New Zealand, Kohli has completed 13 thousand runs while batting at number three in ODI cricket. He has become the first batsman in the world to reach this milestone. In this matter, he had already left Australia's legendary batsman Ricky Ponting far behind. Ponting has 12,662 runs in his name at third place in ODI. Kohli achieved this feat in his 254th match.
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Virat Kohli has been batting at number three in the Indian ODI team for a long time. He has played many memorable innings at this position and now batting at the same position, he has crossed the mark of 13 thousand runs. As soon as he completed 12 runs in the first ODI against New Zealand, this world record was registered in his name. Kohli has played 254 matches so far at number three in ODIs. During this period, he has scored 13,017 runs in 251 innings. His average is 61.69 and strike rate is 95.42. In this order, he has 48 centuries and 69 half-centuries in his name. His highest score is 183 runs.
Ricky Ponting is second after Kohli in the list of batsmen who have scored the third highest number of runs in ODIs. The former Australia captain had scored 12,662 runs in 330 innings of 335 matches at this position in his career. His average was 42.48 and strike rate was 80.73. Ponting had scored 29 centuries and 74 half-centuries at this venue.
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Kohli is now 355 runs ahead of Ponting. Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara is at third place in this list. He had scored 9,747 runs at number three. South Africa's Jacques Kallis is at fourth place with 7,774 runs and New Zealand's Kane Williamson is at fifth place with 6,504 runs.
48 centuries in the name of Kohli at number three
Kohli's consistency in this batting order is also visible in his statistics. He has scored 48 centuries in 251 innings. Apart from this, he has 69 half-centuries in his name. That means, while batting at number three, he has played innings of 50 or more runs a total of 117 times. His average of 61.69 also shows his excellent consistency at this position.
India's position in the match against New Zealand
Talking about the match, the New Zealand team, batting first, was all out for 185 runs in 40.2 overs. India got the target of 186 runs to win. Chasing the target, the Indian team had scored 54 runs at the loss of one wicket in 10.5 overs. Rohit Sharma was out on the ball of Kyle Jamieson without opening the account after playing six balls.
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Till the game was stopped due to rain, Shubman Gill was present at the crease after scoring 17 runs in 32 balls and Virat Kohli was present at the crease after scoring 29 runs in 27 balls. Kohli had hit five fours in his innings. India had to score 132 more runs to win. During this time, Kohli registered this historical record of ODI cricket in his name.