Virat Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar’s big record, became the first player in the world to do so

Virat Kohli Breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s Huge World Record: In the three-match ODI series played between India and South Africa, the Indian team won the series 2-1. Virat Kohli performed brilliantly in this series. He scored 302 runs in three matches. With this performance he was given the Man of the Series award. With this he broke the record of great batsman Sachin Tendulkar.

‘Run Machine’ Virat Kohli has made another big achievement in his name. Kohli was named Player of the Series after his brilliant performance in the ODI series against South Africa, and with this he created a new record for winning the most Player of the Series awards in international cricket, leaving behind ‘Master Blaster’ Sachin Tendulkar.

This is the 20th ‘Player of the Series’ award in Kohli’s career, while Sachin Tendulkar had won the honor 19 times in his entire international career. In this elite list, Bangladesh’s star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is at third place with 17 awards. After him, South Africa’s great all-rounder Jacques Kallis (14) and former Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya (13) are at fourth and fifth position respectively.

Most Player of the Series awards in international cricket

• 20 – Virat Kohli
• 19 – Sachin Tendulkar
• 17 – Shakib Al Hasan
• 14 – Jacques Kallis
• 13 – Sanath Jayasuriya
• 13 – David Warner

This was Virat Kohli’s 11th ‘Player of the Series’ title in the ODI format. In this format, he is jointly at second position with Sanath Jayasuriya. Sachin Tendulkar is at the top of this list. Tendulkar has won 14 Man of the Series awards in ODIs. Whereas Virat Kohli and Sanath Jayasuriya have won 11-11 Man of the Series awards. Whereas Chris Gayle and Shaun Pollock have won this award 8-8 times.

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Most Player of the Series awards in ODI

• 14 – Sachin Tendulkar
• 11 – Sanath Jayasuriya
• 11 – Virat Kohli
• 8 – Chris Gayle
• 8 – Shaun Pollock

37-year-old Virat Kohli has retired from Test and T20 formats. Now Kohli is seen playing only in ODI cricket, in which this right-handed batsman is currently in great form. After scoring 74* in the last ODI on Australia tour, Kohli has played innings of 135, 102 and 65* in the home series against South Africa.

Virat Kohli’s record in Visakhapatnam

The ground of ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium has been very special for Virat Kohli, where he has scored 652 runs in 8 innings (118, 117, 99, 65, 157*, 0, 31 and 65*) with an average of 108.66. Kohli is the highest run scoring batsman here.

Talking about the third ODI match played in Visakhapatnam on Saturday, after bowling out South African team for 270 runs in 47.5 overs, India won in 39.5 overs and won the series 2-1. In this innings, Kohli made an unbroken partnership of 116 runs in 84 balls for the second wicket with opener Yashasvi Jaiswal (116*).