Data check: Outstanding Virat Kohli is the fastest to 12000 runs in ODIs

Virat Kohli’s staggering ODI record continues to get better with seemingly every match he plays. During the third ODI, the India skipper became the fastest to get to the 12,000-runs mark in international cricket. He needed just 242 innings to reach the milestone.

The next fastest on the list is Sachin Tendulkar, who achieved the mark in 300 ODIs.

The truly astounding bit about Kohli’s ODI career is how often he manages to get the three-figure mark (he has 43 centuries to his name) and that he has done all of this at a rather incredible average of 59.41.