Indin skipper Virat Kohli achieved a new feat in his career as he broke the former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting's record to become the fastest to score 9,000 international runs as a captain. He achieved the milestone when he reached 22 runs against Australia during the second One-day International (ODI) in Nagpur.
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Indian captain Virat Kohli reached the 9,000-run mark as a skipper in 159 innings while Ponting took 203 innings to reach the same figure.He has became the sixth player to score 9,000 runs in international cricket as captain. Graeme Smith (220 innings), MS Dhoni (253), Allan Border (257), Stephen Fleming (272) are the other former captains in the list.
Kohli also notched up his 50th ODI half-century in the match. He has scored over 10,570 runs in ODIs with a brilliant average of over 59.
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Talking about the match, Australian captain Aaron Finch had won the toss and elected to field in the second ODI in Nagpur. Virat Kohli played an outstanding knock of 116 runs which played an important role in taking India’s score to a respectable score of 250 runs. Vijay Shankar also played a knock of 46 runs off 41 balls.