Virat Kohli @ 10K: Another day in office

Virat Kohli is the fastest to 10,000 ODI runs in terms of innings taken (205), balls faced (10813) and days from debut (3270) © crick247.blogspot.com

Virat Kohli broke the all time ODI record for the fastest to 10,000 ODI runs during his marathon knock of unbeaten 157 against Windies in the second ODI in Vizag. Starting his innings 81 runs away from the milestone, he took a single off Ashley Nurse in the 37th over of the Indian innings to get to the landmark.

A look at the records Kohli broke during his 37th ODI century:

The elite 10,000 club

0 - Players getting to 10,000 ODI runs faster than Kohli. He's the fastest to the milestone in terms of innings taken (205), balls faced (10813) and days from debut (3270). He became the second youngest to the milestone at 29 years & 353 days after Sachin Tendulkar who was only 27 years & 341 days when he reached the milestone in Indore in 2001.

2 - Players averaging 50-plus at the end of the innings after reaching the 10,000-run milestone. Kohli's average stands at 59.62 after the innings which is way ahead of the next placed MS Dhoni's 51.30 when he went past the 10,000-run mark at Lord's earlier this year.

Players with 10,000+ runs in ODIs

Player	Inngs	Date reahed	Days from debut	Avg	100s	Age
Virat Kohli	205	24 Oct 2018	3270	59.62	37	29y 353d
S Tendulkar	259	31 Mar 2001	4121	42.64	28	27y 341d
S Ganguly	263	03 Aug 2005	4953	41.23	22	33y 26d
R Ponting	266	24 Mar 2007	4420	42.91	23	32y 95d
J Kallis	272	23 Jan 2009	4763	45.45	16	33y 99d
MS Dhoni	273	14 Jul 2018	4951	51.30	10	37y 7d
B Lara	278	16 Dec 2006	5881	40.56	19	37y 228d
R Dravid	287	14 Feb 2007	3969	40.02	12	34y 34d
T Dilshan	293	26 Jul 2015	5706	39.71	22	38y 285d
K Sangakkara	296	17 Feb 2012	4244	37.81	12	34y 113d
Inzamam-ul-Haq	299	19 Sep 2004	4685	38.98	10	34y 200d
S Jayasuriya	328	09 Aug 2005	5705	32.13	18	36y 40d
M Jayawardene	333	18 Nov 2011	5046	33.46	15	34y 175d

The formidable foe of WI

6 - Hundreds for Kohli against Windies in ODIs - the most by any player. Kohli went past the South African trio of Herschelle Gibbs, Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers who all had gone past the three-figure mark five times each. Kohli has hit more centuries against one other opponent - eight against Sri Lanka from 45 innings.

1684 - Runs for Kohli against Windies in 29 ODIs. He went past Tendulkar's 1573 runs from 39 ODIs against them to become the leading run-getter for India against Windies in ODI cricket. He averages 70.16 against them and in runs tally against Windies he is only behind Javed Miandad (1930) and Mark Waugh (1708).

2 - Kohli became the second player to hit hundreds in three consecutive innings against Windies after Babar Azam in the tri-series in UAE in 2016. Kohli scored an unbeaten 111 in Kingston last July in the last match of the series and followed it up with 140 in the first ODI in Guwahati and 157* today. Kohli became the first player to hit hundreds in three consecutive innings against two sides, having earlier done that against Sri Lanka in 2012.

Most runs against WI in ODIs

Player	Mat	Inngs	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100s	50s
Javed Miandad	64	64	1930	100*	33.85	63.78	1	12
Mark Waugh	47	45	1708	173	39.72	76.35	3	11
Virat Kohli	29	29	1684	157*	70.16	96.83	6	9
Jacques Kallis	40	40	1666	139	50.48	77.70	4	12
Rameez Raja	53	53	1624	104*	32.48	58.35	2	8
Sachin Tendulkar	39	39	1573	141*	52.43	78.02	4	11
Allan Border	61	60	1546	127*	28.62	65.84	1	9

An incredible 2018

11 - Innings taken by Kohli to reach 1000 ODI runs in 2018 - the fewest innings taken by any player to reach the 1000-run mark in a calendar year. He broke the previous record held by Hashim Amla and himself, both 15 innings each, in 2010 and 2012 respectively. His scores this year read: 112, 46*, 160*, 75, 36, 129*, 75, 45, 71, 140 & 157*.

6 - Instances of Kohli scoring 1000-plus runs in a calendar year in ODIs - the joint second most for a player alongside Sourav Ganguly, Ricky Ponting and Kumar Sangakkara. Only Tendulkar has done it more often in ODIs - seven times.

1000+ run calendar years for Kohli in ODIs

Year	Mat	Inngs	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100s	50s
2011	34	34	1381	117	47.62	85.56	4	8
2012	17	17	1026	183	68.40	93.78	5	3
2013	34	30	1268	115*	52.83	97.53	4	7
2014	21	20	1054	139*	58.55	99.62	4	5
2017	26	26	1460	131	76.84	99.11	6	7
2018	11	11	1046	160*	149.42	103.87	5	3

4 - This was the fourth instance of Kohli going past 150 in an innings in ODIs. Only Rohit Sharma (six), Tendulkar (five) and David Warner (five) have more such scores in ODIs while Sanath Jayasuriya, Chris Gayle and Amla also have four each. Kohli is the second player to score 150-plus twice while leading the side, after Andrew Strauss.

3 - Hundreds for Kohli at Vizag's ACA-VDCA stadium in just five innings. His five ODI innings at the venue: 118, 117, 99, 65 & 157*. Only in one other venue has he scored more ODI centuries - four in Mirpur (13 innings) - while he has scored three in Colombo RPS as well (eight innings). He became the first Indian to hit five successive 50-plus scores at a single venue in ODIs.

157* - is the second highest individual score for India against Windies in ODIs after Virender Sehwag's 219 in Indore in 2011. It also happens to be the highest individual score in Vizag, surpassing MS Dhoni's 148 against Pakistan in the inaugural ODI at this venue in 2005.

78 - Innings taken by Kohli to reach 4000 runs in home ODIs - the fastest by any player. AB de Villiers reached the mark in South Africa in 91 innings, which was the previous fastest while playing for South Africa and the composite African XI. Tendulkar and Dhoni are the two players to score 4000-plus in India, reaching there in 92 and 100 innings respectively.