Virat Kohli became the fastest to score 2,000 ODI runs as captain during the fourth ODI against Australia in Bengaluru on Thursday. He took 36 innings to get to the feat, going past former South African captain AB de Villiers, who achieved it in 41 innings.
However, it wasn’t a good day at the office for Kohli and his team as India lost the fourth ODI by 21 runs. The visitors ended India’s nine-match winning streak in ODIs.
Electing to bat, Australia posted a challenging total of 334/5 in their 50 overs, courtesy a 231-run opening stand by David Warner and Aaron Finch.
Warner top scored for the visitors with 124 runs off 119 deliveries, hitting 12 boundaries and four sixes.
The in-form Finch, who had scored a century in the last match, was unlucky to miss out on another three-digit score. He fell to fast bowler Umesh Yadav on 94, having smashed 10 boundaries and three sixes during his 96-ball stay in the middle.
In reply, the hosts could only manage 313/8 despite half-centuries from Kedar Jadhav, Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane.
Virat Kohli failed to register the longest winning streak in ODIs by an Indian captain. He had equalled previous captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's record run of nine consecutive victories when the hosts won the last encounter at Indore.
(With inputs from IANS)
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