STATS: Virat Kohli becomes fastest batter to reach 28,000 runs, breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s record | Cricket News

Virat Kohli continued his rampaging pursuit of breaking milestones as he reached 28,000 international runs during the first ODI against New Zealand in Vadodara on Sunday. He got the milestone walloping a ball from Adithya Ashok past the New Zealand spinner.
The 37-year-old Kohli completed 28,000 runs across all formats, joining an exclusive club of batters which includes Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara.
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Kohli broke Tendulkar’s record to become the fastest batter to reach 28,000 runs in only his 624th* innings since his international debut in 2008. Tendulkar had reached the landmark during his 644th innings while Sangakkara crossed the feat in his 666th innings.
In February 2023, Kohli became the fastest batter to reach 25,000 runs, achieving the mark in 549 innings, 28 innings quicker than Tendulkar. In October 2023, Kohli went past 26,000 runs as the quickest to the landmark, again bettering Tendulkar 13 innings. A year later, in September 2024, he leapt to 27,000 runs in his 59th innings.
Kohli relished a successful end to the 2025 calendar year in the 50-over format after scoring back-to-back centuries against South Africa and finishing the series decider with an unbeaten half-century as India won 2-1. He later turned up for two matches in the domestic Vijay Hazare Trophy, scoring a century and a fifty against Andhra and Gujarat respectively. Kohli’s superb L A streak of six successive of fifty-plus scores began in Sydney, immediately after he was dismissed for two consecutive ducks for the first time in his ODI career in Australia.
Fastest to 28,000 international runs
624 innings* = Virat Kohli*644 innings – Sachin Tendulkar666 innings – Kumar SangakkaraStory continues below this ad
Most runs in international cricket
Stats of September 30 when Kohli reached 27,000 runs

Player
Span
Mat
Inns
Runs
HS
Ave
SR
100
50

Sachin Tendulkar (IND)
1989-2013
664
782
34357
248*
48.52
67.58*
100
164

Kumar Sangakkara (Asia/ICC/SL)
2000-2015
594
666
28016
319
46.77
66.56
63
153

Virat Kohli (IND)
2008-2026
556
624
28000
254*
52.58
79.45
84
145

Ricky Ponting (AUS/ICC)
1995-2012
560
668
27483
257
45.95
68.48
71
146

Mahela Jayawardena (Asia/SL)
1997-2015
652
725
25957
374
39.15
64.73
54
136

Jacques Kallis (Afr/ICC/SA)
1995-2014
519
617
25534
224
49.1
56.3
62
149

Rahul Dravid (Asia/ICC/IND)
1996-2012
509
605
24208
270
45.41
51.98
48
146

Brian Lara (ICC/WI)
1990-2007
430
521
22358
400*
46.28
68.08
53
111

Joe Root (ENG)
2012-2026
381
503
22166
262
49.36
66.54
60
114

Sanath Jayasuriya (Asia/SL)
1989-2011
586
651
21032
340
34.14
81.17
42
103