{"id":1718,"date":"2024-10-01T06:08:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/virat-kohli-becomes-fastest-batter-to-score-27000-intl-runs\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T06:08:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:08:20","slug":"virat-kohli-becomes-fastest-batter-to-score-27000-intl-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/2024\/10\/01\/virat-kohli-becomes-fastest-batter-to-score-27000-intl-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli becomes fastest batter to score 27,000 int&#8217;l runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"medium-insert-images ui-sortable\">\n<figure contenteditable=\"false\">\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/assets\/uploads\/updates\/2024-09-30\/566682_9157165_updates.jpg\" alt=\"India\u2019s Virat Kohli (right) plays a shot during the fourth day of the second Test cricket match between India and Bangladesh at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur on September 30, 2024. \u2014 AFP\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><figcaption contenteditable=\"true\" class=\"\">India\u2019s Virat Kohli (right) plays a shot during the fourth day of the second Test cricket match between India and Bangladesh at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur on September 30, 2024. \u2014 AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In yet another feather in his cap, India batting maestro Virat Kohli on Monday became the fastest player to score 27,000 international runs during day four of the second Test against Bangladesh at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur.<\/p>\n<p>He surpassed Sachin Tendulkar\u2019s record of 27,000 runs in 623 innings. Kohli has currently played 594 innings in international cricket.<\/p>\n<p>The other players who have crossed the 27,000-run mark include former Australian captain Ricky Ponting and Sri Lanka\u2019s Kumar Sangakkara.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Fastest to score 27,000 runs<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>594 innings \u2013 Virat Kohli<\/p>\n<p>623 innings \u2013 Sachin Tendulkar<\/p>\n<p>648 innings \u2013 Kumar Sangakkara<\/p>\n<p>650 innings \u2013 Ricky Ponting<\/p>\n<p>Before the start of the match, Kohli had scored 8,871 Test runs in 114 matches at an average of 48.74. In ODIs he has scored 13,906 runs in 295 matches at 58.18. The batter also has 4,188 runs from 125 T20Is at 48.69.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Most runs in international cricket<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>34,357 runs &#8211; Sachin Tendulkar (782 innings)<\/p>\n<p>28,016 runs &#8211; Kumar Sangakkara (666 innings)<\/p>\n<p>27,483 runs &#8211; Ricky Ponting (668 innings)<\/p>\n<p>27,012 runs &#8211; Virat Kohli in (594 innings)<\/p>\n<p>25,957 runs &#8211; Mahela Jayawardene (725 innings)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/566682-ind-vs-ban-virat-kohli-becomes-fastest-batter-to-score-27000-intl-runs\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Virat Kohli (right) plays a shot during the fourth day of the second Test cricket match between India and Bangladesh at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur on September 30, 2024. \u2014 AFP In yet another feather in his cap, India batting maestro Virat Kohli on Monday became the fastest player to score 27,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofpakistan.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}