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Indian batting linchpin Virat Kohli became the fastest batsman to score 25,000 runs in international cricket in the second session of the third day of the second Test between India and Australia in Delhi on Sunday.

Kohli beat former great Sachin Tendulkar to this record as the ex-India skipper got to this feat in 549 international games across the three formats. Tendulkar had taken 577 innings to reach the mark.

Australian World Cup-winning captain Ricky Ponting is third behind Tendulkar in this marquee list now – having notched 25,000 international runs in 588 innings. He eventually called it a day in his career with 27,483 runs to his name.

Jacques Kallis (594) along with Sri Lankan stalwarts Kumar Sangakkara (608) and Jacques Kallis (701) follow Ponting for the fourth, fifth and sixth spots in this list respectively.

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Breakdown of Virat Kohli’s 25,000 runs

Over 50 per cent of Kohli’s 25,000 runs have come in arguably the format that he has been the most dominant in, i.e. One Day International (ODI) cricket. The 34-year-old has 12,809 runs to his name in 262 ODI innings. He has scored a whopping 46 centuries to go with 64 half-centuries.

That is not to say that his record in other formats is any less as compared to ODIs. In Tests, Kohli has aggregated 8195 runs in 180 innings with 27 centuries and 28 half-centuries. This includes tons in some of the most challenging playing conditions across the world, including Australia (6), England (2), South Africa (2), New Zealand (1) and West Indies (1).

Further, being perhaps the greatest all-format batsman of all-time, Kohli has proven his mettle and excellence in T20Is over the past decade as well. He has been the Player of the Tournament in two T20 World Cups (2014, 2016) and has led India’s charge in the competition with incredible consistency since 2012.

In September last year, he bagged his first-ever T20I ton (against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup) in an innings that also brought an end to his nearly three-year-long century drought back then. Overall, Kohli has scored 4008 runs in 107 T20I innings at an average and strike rate of 52.74 and 137.97 respectively.