Virat Kohli on Wednesday broke Sachin Tendulkar's record for quickest to 10,000 runs. He accomplished this achievement against a progressing ODI series among India and West Indies. The match being played at Vizag is the second ODI after Guwahati, where the host won by 8 wkts.
Kohli's 10,000 ODI runs comes in just 205 innings, or, in other words after Sachin Tendulkar, who took 259 innings to accomplish this achievement.
Kohli becomes the fifth Indian batsman and thirteenth in the entire cricket fraternity to accomplish 10,000 ODI runs.
But other than that one more astounding fact about Kohli is that it took him only 11 innings to reach from 9000 to 10,000 runs which is the least innings taken by any other international player.
The way that he took only 11 innings to get the last 1000 runs, well it demonstrates his incentive as a run machine. He is only 29yrs old and has a long periods of cricket in front of him. Right now he is on course to set new benchmarks. When he completes, who knows what number of runs and tons and who knows how many records are still to be broken.
So we should appreciate him batting at this moment. The man is a treat to watch and the manner in which he is playing, Sachin's records of 49 ODI hundreds and 18.426 runs truly look in risk of being broken.