Overview:
Kumar accumulated 28016 in 666 innings at an average of 46.8. Sachin was a part of 782 innings and accumulated 34357 runs at an average of 48.5.
Virat Kohli surpassed Kumar Sangakkara on the list of the highest run-getters across formats in international cricket. Kohli is now in second place, with Sachin Tendulkar leading the standings.
The right-handed batter was 41 runs behind the legendary Sri Lankan batter before the start of the IND vs NZ first ODI. He went past Sangakkara with a single on the fifth delivery of the 19th over of India’s run chase. In 624 innings, Virat has amassed 28017 runs at an average of 52.7.
Kumar accumulated 28016 in 666 innings at an average of 46.8. Sachin was a part of 782 innings and accumulated 34357 runs at an average of 48.5.
Virat has retired from T20Is and Test cricket, and his only active in one-day internationals. In 123 Tests, the 38-year-old posted 9230 runs at an average of 46.85, including 30 hundreds and 31 fifties.
He played 125 T20Is for the Men in Blue, scoring 4188 runs at an average of 48.69 and a strike rate of 137.04, laced with 1 hundred and 38 fifties.
In the fifty-over format, he has managed 14607 runs at an average of 58.66, with the help of 53 centuries and 77 fifties.
He also played for Delhi in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and went on to hit a hundred and fifty in two matches. Kohli is targeting the 2027 ODI World Cup and is in prime form. The team management and the selectors have refused to confirm his place for the global tournament in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Namibia.
His relationship with head coach Gautam Gambhir has taken a hit, and the two are not on talking terms. However, his performance with the bat has ended all the doubts about his abilities, following his retirement from the two formats.
Kohli has hit five consecutive 50-plus scores in the ODIs. He has been unstoppable since the last ODI against Australia last year. Virat hit a fifty in the winning cause in Sydney and then smashed two successive centuries against the Proteas before ending the assignment with a half-century.
In his first innings of 2026, he has completed another fifty.