Kohli's turn to be overtaken

India's Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been breaking record after record.

18,665

The number of international runs made by Virat Kohli before the age of 30. Only former teammate Sachin Tendulkar had made more at that age.

Most international runs before the age of 30 years

Runs	Batsman	Country	Matches	Innings	Not outs	Average	Highest score	Hundreds	Fifties
21,030	Sachin Tendulkar	India	419	474	46	49.13	217	65	97
18,665	Virat Kohli	India	351	390	60	56.56	243	62	85
15,123	Jacques Kallis	South Africa	314	368	64	49.74	189*	35	90
14,512	Graeme Smith	South Africa	287	353	21	43.71	277	30	77
14,164	A. B. de Villiers	South Africa	300	351	49	46.90	278*	34	75

 

 

2,203

The number of runs made by Rohit Sharma in Twenty20 Internationals up to the end of the Lucknow match. He is now the leading run-getter for India in this format, surpassing the previous record tally of 2,102 runs by Virat Kohli, who had held the record since September 2014.

 

 

T20I runs aggregate: Progression of Indian record

Runs	Batsman	Against	Venue	Date	Next highest
38	Dinesh Mongia	South Africa	Johannesburg	December 1, 2006	Virender Sehwag (34)
50	Robin Uthappa	Pakistan	Durban	September 14, 2007	Dinesh Karthik (42)
79	Virender Sehwag	New Zealand	Johannesburg	September 16, 2007	Dinesh Karthik (59)
227	Gautam Gambhir	Australia	Durban	September 22, 2007	Virender Sehwag (167)
939	Yuvraj Singh	Australia	Mirpur	March 30, 2014	Gautam Gambhir (932)
972	Virat Kohli	England	Birmingham	September 7, 2014	Yuvraj Singh (968)
2,203	Rohit Sharma	West Indies	Lucknow	November 6, 2018	Virat Kohli (2,102)

 

4

The number of three-figure scores by Rohit Sharma in T20I cricket. This is now the most by any batsman in this format. Sharma achieved the record in Lucknow.

 

Batsmen with two or more centuries in T20I cricket

Hundreds	Fifties	Batsman	Matches	Innings	Country	Nineties	Achieved on
4	15	Rohit Sharma	86	79	India	1	November 6, 2018
3	8	Colin Munro	48	45	New Zealand		January 3, 2018
2	13	Brendon McCullum	71	70	New Zealand	1	September 21, 2012
2	13	Chris Gayle	56	52	West Indies	2	March 16, 2016
2	3	Evin Lewis	17	17	West Indies	1	July 9, 2017
2	14	Martin Guptill	75	73	New Zealand	1	February 16, 2018
2	4	K. L. Rahul	21	19	India		July 3, 2018
2	9	Aaron Finch	46	46	Australia		July 3, 2018
2	5	Glenn Maxwell	53	47	Australia		July 7, 2018

 

 

 

The first batsmen to reach…  

T20I 100 #	Batsman	Score	Country	Opponent	Venue	Date	Notes
1	Chris Gayle	117	West Indies	South Africa	Johannesburg	September 11, 2007	Equalled by six others
2	Brendon McCullum	123	New Zealand	Bangladesh	Pallekele	September 21, 2012	Equalled by Gayle, Lewis, Munro and Sharma
3	Colin Munro	104	New Zealand	West Indies	Mt Maunganui	January 3, 2018	Equalled by Sharma on July 8 , 2018
4	Rohit Sharma	111*	India	West Indies	Lucknow	November 6, 2018

 

6

The number of successive bilateral One-Day International series won at home by India, since losing 2-3 to South Africa in October 2015 at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. The 3-1 win against the West Indies now equals India’s best home series win sequence. The current steak began against New Zealand in October 2016.

Most successive bilateral ODI series wins at home

 

First streak

Series	Opponent	Matches	Result
December 2009	Sri Lanka	5	3-1
February 2010	South Africa	3	2-1
October 2010	Australia	1	1-0
November-December 2010	New Zealand	5	5-0
October 2011	England	5	5-0
November-December 2011	West Indies	5	4-1

 

Second streak

Series	Opponent	Matches	Result
October 2016	New Zealand	5	3-2
January 2017	England	3	2-1
September-October 2017	Australia	5	4-1
October 2017	New Zealand	3	2-1
December 2017	Sri Lanka	3	2-1
October-November 2018	West Indies	5	3-1

 

 

Note: India won five successive ODI series between March 1993 and December 1996 and again between January 2013 and November 2014.

 

 

Queries Corner Joe Denly made a comeback to the England team after nearly eight years. Is this the longest for any player in the T20I format? – Aniket Shetty, Mumbai. England’s Joe Denly made a comeback of sorts when he played in the T20I match against Sri Lanka at the Premadasa on October 27, 2018. He last played a T20I game against Pakistan in Dubai on February 20, 2010 – a gap of eight years, 247 days. This is now the second longest for any T20I player. His former teammate Liam Plunkett holds the record of nine years, 162 days between June 2006 and November 2015. However, Denly now holds the record of missing most games in between – 79. Plunkett held the record previously by missing 74 games! Before he was dismissed for 16 at the Brabourne Stadium, Virat Kohli had 16 consecutive scores of 25-plus in ODIs. Is this a record sequence by any batsman? – Pooja Mishra, Chandigarh. Virat Kohli, in fact, equalled the record held by Matthew Hayden of Australia, who from February 20, 2007 to October 11, 2007 made 16 scores of 25-plus, which included four hundreds and four fifties, with a highest of 181 not out. Kohli, during his sequence, hit eight hundreds and three fifties, with a highest of 160 not out. In the Guwahati ODI, India used just five bowlers against the West Indies, who scored 322/8 in their 50 overs. What is the highest score in ODI cricket when just five bowlers have been used? – Srihari Rao, Visakhapatnam. The West Indies’ 322/8 at Guwahati is now the second highest total by an opponent where only five Indian bowlers shared the 50 overs. Nearly 12 years ago, West Indies had made 324/8 in 50 overs in Nagpur on January 21, 2007 when only Zaheer Khan, S. Sreesanth, Ajit Agarkar, Harbhajan Singh and Sachin Tendulkar bowled their full quota of 10 overs each. India won that ODI by 14 runs. However, the ODI record was set recently at Edinburgh on June 10, 2018 when England used just five bowlers against Scotland, who had massed a huge total of 371/5 in their 50 overs. In the Abu Dhabi Test against Australia, Pakistan’s Babar Azam scored a duck and then a 99. How often has a Test batsman been dismissed on a duck and then fell one short of a century in the second innings? – S Rajan, Nagpur. Babar Azam is the sixth batsman to make a duck and 99 in the same Test match. However, he is the only second batsman in Test history to first register a duck and then be dismissed for a 99 in the second innings of the Test. India’s Pankaj Roy had this misfortune against Australia in Delhi during the 1959-60 series.