Virat Kohli India's max run-getter in 2010
New Delhi: Last June, Virat Kohli became the fastest Indian to aggregate 1000 runs in one-day internationals, reaching the milestone in just 24 innings. On Sunday yet again he proved just why he could become an invaluable player in India's World Cup plans as he hit his second successive ODI ton, becoming only the seventh Indian to do so.
With his second straight hundred that earned him his fourth Man of the Match award, Kohli joined the ranks with the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh and Rohit Sharma.
If the Delhi lad gets to the three-figure mark in the second ODI in Jaipur on Wednesday, he will become the first Indian to get three successive ODI hundreds and also be within striking distance of getting 1000 runs in a calendar year.
The batsman has now aggregated 866 runs in 21 games in 2010, the most by any Indian batsman this year. Among all batsmen only three - Hashim Amla (1058), AB de Villiers (964) and Tillakaratne Dilshan (921) – are ahead of Kohli.
Kohli's fourth ODI hundred on Sunday also took him past former India opener Navjot Singh Sidhu as the Indian batsman with the highest aggregate after the first 33 innings.
In just 33 ODI innings, Kohli has aggregated 1350 runs at an average of 46.55. Sidhu previously held the record with 1271 runs.
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