India batter Virat Kohli became the fastest batter to reach 14,000 ODI runs during the Champions Trophy 2025 match against Pakistan at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.
The 36-year-old Kohli surpassed Sachin Tendulkar (350 innings), by achieving the feat in only 287 innings. Kohli got to the landmark when he reached 15 runs in the chase against Pakistan.
Kohli is only the third batter ever to reach the milestone after Tendulkar and Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara who crossed the milestone in 378 innings in 2015. The former India captain only took 10 innings to cross from 13,000 to 14,000. In September 2023, Kohli reached his 13,000th ODI run, incidentally while playing Pakistan in the Asia Cup in Colombo.
Kohli then got to 13,000 in only 277 innings, 44 innings quicker than the previous record-holder in Tendulkar who got to the mark in 321 innings. Kohli then went on a tear in the ODI World Cup that year, as he broke Tendulkar’s record for most runs in a single edition, with 765 runs. In the ODI World Cup semi-final, Kohli surpassed Tendulkar’s record with his 50th ODI century.
With over 15,000 runs in overall List-A cricket, Kohli ranks 15th in the all-time charts and third in ODI cricket behind Tendulkar (18,426) and Sangakkara (14,234). Kohli’s 54 List A centuries are only bettered by Tendulkar (60).
Kohli is one match away from completing 300 ODIs and will become only the seventh Indian to reach the mark after Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Rahul Dravid, Mohammed Azharuddin, Sourav Ganguly and Yuvraj Singh.
Fastest to 14,000 ODI runs (innings)
287 – Virat Kohli
350 – Sachin Tendulkar
378 – Kumar Sangakkara
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