Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Feb 19: India batter Virat Kohli reached another historic milestone in his career, becoming the fastest batter to score 25,000 runs in international cricket. Playing against Australia on Day 3 of the second Test match in New Delhi, he made this record. In the process, Kohli outperformed Sachin Tendulkar, who had accomplished the feat in 577 games.
Following Virat and Sachin are the likes of Ricky Ponting (588), Jacques Kallis (594), Kumar Sangakkara (608) and Mahela Jayawardene (701).
After Indian openers KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma left the crease early, Kohli took his position. While Rohit got off to a strong start and lost his wicket due to a mix-up with Cheteshwar Pujara, Rahul could only muster one run, continuing his dismal streak.
When Australia was skittled out for 113 in their second innings earlier in the game, India’s spin twins Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja put on an electrifying performance, including a seven-for by the latter, which gave the hosts a target of 115 runs to take an unbeatable 2-0 series lead.
India had a score of 14/1 at the break, with captain Rohit Sharma (12*) and Cheteshwar Pujara (1*) on the field.
At 61/1, Australia resumed their innings in an effort to extend the visitors’ lead. Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne both contributed 39 runs.
Early in the session, Ashwin scored for the home team by removing a threatening Head for 43 off 46 balls and dropping Australia to 65/2.
The innings then advanced with to the partnership of Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne, who added 20 more runs until Ashwin removed Smith for only 9 runs. In 19 overs, Australia had scored 85/3.
