Virat Kohli Breaks Javed Miandad’s 26-Year-Old Record vs Windies
Kohli needed 19 runs before the start of the second ODI against the West Indies in Port of Spain to surpass Miandad.
India captain Virat Kohli on Sunday, 11 August, surpassed Pakistan great Javed Miandad to become the highest run-scorer against the West Indies in ODI cricket.
Kohli needed 19 runs before the start of the second ODI against the West Indies in Port of Spain to surpass Miandad's tally of 1,930 runs against the two-time World Cup winners.
Miandad played his last ODI against the Windies in 1993. Miandad took 64 innings to reach his tally while Kohli has taken just 34 innings to surpass that.
Australia's Mark Waugh is a distant third with 1708 runs from 47 matches, followed by South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis (1666 runs in 40 matches) and Pakistan's Rameez Raja (1624 runs in 53 matches).
Kohli played his first ODI against West Indies in the 2009 Champions Trophy in Johannesburg in which he scored an unbeaten 79. His first hundred against the West Indies came in 2011 in Visakhapatnam.
Kohli's domination against the West Indies cane be gauged from the fact that he struck four back-to-back centuries against them between July 2017 and October 2018.
In the second ODI on Sunday, India won the toss and chose to bat first in Port of Spain. Opener Shikhar Dhawan was dismissed by Oshane Thomas off the third ball of the first over and so Kohli was put in to bat early. He and Rohit Sharma then took control of the innings as India surpassed the 50-run mark in the 10th over.
Captain Kohli got to his 55th ODI half-century off 57 balls before Rohit fell for 18, ending their 74-run stand.
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