Virat Kohli creates history in Test against Bangladesh, breaks Tendulkar's record

Virat Kohli: Indian cricket team's star cricketer Virat Kohli made history by breaking a record in the second Test between India and Bangladesh. In this match, he scored 47 runs in 35 balls with the help of 4 fours and 1 six. Despite missing out on a half-century, Kohli set a new record by completing 27 thousand runs in international cricket. With this, Kohli has broken the world record of great batsman Sachin Tendulkar.

Now Kohli has become the fastest cricketer to complete 27 thousand international runs. He has achieved this feat in 594 innings. While Sachin achieved this feat in 623 innings. Kohli made this record by playing 29 innings less than Sachin. He is the fourth batsman to score 27,000 runs in international cricket.

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Let us tell you here that the record of scoring the most international runs is still in the name of Sachin. He scored a total of 34,357 runs in 664 matches in a career spanning 24 years. Second on the list is former Sri Lanka wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara. He has scored 28016 runs in 594 matches. After this, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting achieved this feat by scoring 27483 runs in 560 international matches. Kohli has crossed the 27 thousand mark in his 594th match. 

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Talking about this Test match, India declared the first innings by scoring 285 runs for 9 wickets in 34.4 overs. Bangladesh scored 233 runs in the first innings. India has got a lead of 52 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 72 and KL Rahul scored 68 runs. Apart from this, Shubman Gill scored 39 and captain Rohit Sharma scored 23 runs.