Virat Kohli surpassed another record held by Sachin Tendulkar. Kohli needed just 1 run before this match to become the highest run-scorer for India against New Zealand in ODIs. He started this innings with a boundary and then broke Sachin’s record. While Tendulkar took 41 innings to reach this tally of runs, Virat achieved it in 35 innings.
Virender Sehwag is at the third spot with 1157 runs in 23 innings while Rohit Sharma follows him with 1123 runs in 31 innings. One run by Kohli in the second ODI will also help Kohli become the highest run-getter in ODIs played between India and New Zealand.
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Congratulations to Virat Kohli – the Number One Batter in ICC Men’s ODI Rankings 👏👏#TeamIndia | @imVkohli pic.twitter.com/yTWjSQlNb7
— BCCI (@BCCI) January 14, 2026
What Kohli said after the match
“If I look back at my whole journey then it is nothing short of a dream come true for me. I have always known my abilities, but I also knew I had to work extremely hard to get where I am today. God has blessed me with far more than I could ever ask for, I look back at my journey with a lot of grace and gratitude, and I feel really proud of it,” Kohli had said after the first match.
“If I am being brutally honest, the way I’m playing right now, I’m not thinking about milestones at all. If we were batting first, I probably would’ve gone harder. But in a chase, with a total on the board, I had to play the situation. I felt like hitting more boundaries, but experience kicks in. The only thing on my mind was getting the team into a position where we could win comfortably,” he added.
New Zealand captain Michael Bracewell won the toss and opted to bowl at the Niranjan Shah Stadium. India made one change to their playing XI – Nitish Kumar Reddy replaced the injured Washington Sundar.
For New Zealand, Jayden Lennox was handed his ODI debut.
Sankranti gift for his fans pic.twitter.com/cvXnZCkBpU
— Cricket Panchayat (@CrickPanchayat) January 14, 2026
Playing XIs
India: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill (captain), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, and Prasidh Krishna.
New Zealand: Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls, Will Young, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Hay (wk), Michael Bracewell (captain), Zakary Foulkes, Jayden Lennox, Kyle Jamieson, and Kristian Clarke
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