Kohli Tom powers India

COLOMBO: An outstanding knock of 122 unbeaten off just 94 balls against Pakistan in the Super Four stage of the Asia Cup at the R Premadasa Stadium by Virat Kohli helped India win on Monday.

Kohli completed 13,000 ODI runs, becoming the fifth player to reach the landmark in men’s ODIs.

Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Sanath Jayasuriya and Mahela Jayawardene are the others before Kohli to reach the milestone. While Tendulkar took 321 innings to get to the mark, Kohli has reached the same in 267 innings, becoming the quickest to the milestone and breaking the legendary batter’s record. Ponting (341) and Sangakkara (363) took over 300 innings too while Jayasuriya reached the mark in 416 innings.