Kohli, who is at the top of the rankings, has scored 12,883 runs in the 213 matches in which he led India.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma on Thursday became the fifth Indian captain to score 5,000 international runs while leading the team in all formats.
Rohit, who already has over 19,000 runs to his name across all three formats, has now scored 5,013 runs in 122 matches where he has led India. He reached this milestone while batting against England in the semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2024.
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The 37-year-old joins the Virat KohliMS Dhoni, Mohammed Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly in the exclusive club.
Kohli, who tops the rankings, has scored 12,883 runs in the 213 matches he has played as India’s captain. This, along with the additional 13,926 runs he has scored when he was not captaining the team, makes for a colossal total of 26,808 runs across all formats.
MS Dhoni is the only other Indian skipper to have crossed the five-figure mark in his role. Having led India to three ICC titles, Dhoni leads the chart in terms of matches managed for India.
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First posted on: 2024-06-27 at 22:38 IST