India's captain Virat Kohli rises his bat as he celebrates his century against West Indies. (Photo | AP) 
Cricket

Virat Kohli breaks Ganguly's record while scoring hundred against West Indies

Virat Kohli also surpassed Sourav Ganguly to become the second-highest run-scorer for India in ODI cricket by crossing 11,221 runs.

From our online archive

PORT OF SPAIN: India captain Virat Kohli on Sunday notched up his 42nd ODI ton in the second one-dayer against the West Indies, and in the process surpassed Sourav Ganguly to become the second-highest run-scorer for India in ODI cricket.

Ganguly scored 11,221 runs in 297 innings while Kohli took 229 innings to go past the former skipper.

Soon after Kohli broke his record, Ganguly tweeted: "Virat kohli another master class in one day cricket @imVkohli @BCCI .. what a player."

During the course of his knock, Kohli also surpassed Javed Miandad's tally of 1,930 runs to become the highest run-scorer in ODIs against the West Indies.

Thirty-year-old Kohli is now only behind Sachin Tendulkar, who has a whopping 18,426 runs to his name which he accumulated over 452 innings. Kohli is now the seventh-highest run-scorer in ODIs overall behind Jacques Kallis, Inzamam-Ul-Haq, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara and Tendulkar.

CRPF chief tells personnel to ‘perform duties fearlessly’, amid row pellet gun use on student protesters

Mamata asks EC to wrap up 'TMC dispute' inquiry without giving rival camp any more time

Parliament Monsoon Session Day 8 LIVE | Rajya Sabha to take up anti-paper leak Bill today; LS adjourned till 2 pm

'Time is right for me to move on': Ajinkya Rahane announces retirement from all forms of cricket

Assam flood toll climbs to 78; over three lakh still affected as IMD warns of more rain

SCROLL FOR NEXT