Indian captain Virat Kohli communicates with his bench during the fourth One Day International cricket match between South Africa and India at Wanderers cricket ground. (AFP)
He surpassed former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin's tally of 9,378 runs that he acquired in 308 innings. At top of the list is Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar with a whopping 18,426 runs, followed by Sourav Ganguly (11,221) and Rahul Dravid (10,768). Fourth on the list is MS Dhoni with 9,954 runs.
In the current series, Kohli has been in great form and has notched two centuries to go with a fifty. In the four innings in the series so far, Virat has amassed 393 runs.
In the fourth match also, Kohli got 75 runs, but got out in order to accelerate the Indian innings. After Rohit Sharma was sent back to the pavilion for just five runs, he strung a crucial 158-run partnership with centurion Shikhar Dhawan (109).
It is not the first record that Kohli has shattered in the series. During the third ODI at Cape Town, Kohli brought up 34th ODI ton, and 12th as skipper. The Delhi dasher became an Indian captain with most ODI hundreds to his name. He overtook Ganguly's record of 11 centuries in 142 innings. Kohli achieved the feat in 43 innings only.
Also this was his 55th international century. In hundreds scored across all the formats, he only ranks behind Tendulkar (100), Ponting (71), Sangakkara (63) & Kallis (62).
Live Cricket Score, India vs South Africa 2018, 4th ODI in Johannesburg: Markram, Amla Dealing in Boundaries Early on in ChaseFirst Published: February 11, 2018, 8:35 AM IST