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Former Indian skipper Virat Kohli has become the fastest to 25,000 runs in international cricket. Kohli achieved the feat on Day 3 of the second Test against Australia at Arun Jaitley Stadium. Kohli broke legendary Sachin Tendulkar's record as he crossed the 25,000-run mark in his 549th international innings.
Tendulkar held the previous record as he crossed the 25,000-run mark in his 577th innings. He is followed by Australia's Ricky Ponting (588), South Africa's Jacques Kallis (594), Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara (608) and Mahela Jayawardene (701).
Kohli is also the second Indian batter to score 25,000 international runs and sixth overall.
In the 12th over of India's run chase, Kohli completed 25,000 international runs with a boundary off Nathan Lyon's delivery.
The 34-year-old lost his wicket to Todd Murphy in the second innings. Kohli stepped out to smother the spin but Murphy bowled an arm ball that missed the outside edge and Alex Carey was quick to take off the bails. Carey created history as this was the first time Kohli got stumped in Test cricket. He scored 20 runs from 31 deliveries including three boundaries.
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Kohli got out in the 19th over of the innings when India needed 46 more runs to win the Test. India lost one more wicket of Shreyas Iyer in the run chase but wicketkeeper-batter Srikar Bharat took off pressure with an unbeaten 22-ball 23. Cheteshwar Pujara in his 100th Test finished the run chase with a boundary to help India win the game by six wickets.
Earlier in the first innings, Kohli scored 44 runs from 84 deliveries to rescue India from 66/4 in the first session. Kohli was unlucky to miss his half-century as he became a victim of controversial decision by Nitin Menon and third umpire Richard Illingworth. The review showed that the ball had hit the bat and pad at a similar time. But lack of evidence meant that Kohli's wicket was awarded to debutant left-arm spinner Matthew Kuhnemann.
