Former India captain Virat Kohli surpassed Mahela Jayawardene to become the fifth highest run-scorer in one-day internationals. The 34-year-old reached the milestone in the final ODI against Sri Lanka.

The right-handed batter has hit 45 hundreds and 65 fifties in his glorious ODI career.

Most runs in ODI format

Sachin – 18426 (452 innings) Sangakkara – 14234 (380 innings) Ponting -13704 (365 innings) Jayasuriya – 13430 (433 innings) Kohli – 12651* (259 innings)

Kohli shared a 131-run partnership with Shubman Gill, who smashed his second ODI hundred. Meanwhile, Kohli scored a ton in the opening game of the series in Assam.

Sri Lanka XI: D Shanaka (c), N Fernando, A Fernando, K Mendis (wk), C Asalanka, A Bandara, W Hasaranga, C Karunaratne, K Rajitha, J Vandersay, L Kumara

India XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Suryakumar Yadav, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj

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