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Senior batter Virat Kohli on Thursday surpassed MS Dhoni as India’s second-most capped worldwide cricketer through the first Take a look at in opposition to New Zealand on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Kohli was confirmed for his 536th worldwide match when listed within the XI and went previous Dhoni’s 535 caps for India between 2004 and 2019. Sachin Tendulkar tops the charts amongst Indians, with 664 appearances throughout codecs in a profession spanning from 1989 to 2013. Amongst energetic cricketers, Kohli is adopted by India captain Rohit Sharma (486) and Ravindra Jadeja (346) within the listing.
Kohli has so far amassed 27,041 runs and 80 lots of in his profession, solely bettered by Tendulkar amongst Indians. He has represented India in 295 ODIs and featured in 125 T20Is earlier than retiring earlier this yr after the T20 World Cup triumph within the West Indies.
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The 35-year-old is tied for eighth when it comes to Take a look at appearances for India, incomes his 116th cap this week. Kohli is 53 runs wanting changing into solely the fourth Indian to finish 9000 runs in Checks, behind Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar.
Within the current Take a look at collection in opposition to Bangladesh, Kohli turned the quickest batter to finish 27,000 worldwide runs in solely 594 innings.
Kohli made his worldwide debut in an ODI in Sri Lanka in 2008. He opened the batting with present head coach Gautam Gambhir and scored 17 runs in his maiden look. Kohli later made his T20I debut in 2010 in Zimbabwe earlier than taking part in his first Take a look at in opposition to the West Indies in Kingston.
Most matches for India
| Participant | Span | Mat | Runs | Wickets |
| Sachin Tendulkar | 1989-2013 | 664 | 34357 | 201 |
| Virat Kohli | 2008-2024 | 536* | 27041 | 9 |
| MS Dhoni | 2004-2019 | 535 | 17092 | 1 |
| Rahul Dravid | 1996-2012 | 504 | 24064 | 5 |
| Rohit Sharma | 2007-2024 | 486 | 19276 | 12 |
| M Azharuddin | 1984-2000 | 433 | 15593 | 12 |
| Sourav Ganguly | 1992-2008 | 421 | 18433 | 132 |
| Anil Kumble | 1990-2008 | 401 | 3409 | 953 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 2000-2017 | 399 | 11686 | 147 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 1998-2016 | 365 | 3545 | 707 |
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