NEW DELHI: Through the first Check match between India and New Zealand on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, senior batsman Virat Kohli handed former captain MS Dhoni to grow to be the second-most-capped worldwide cricketer for India throughout all codecs.
Kohli took the sector in Bengaluru on Thursday, marking his 536th look for India. In distinction, Dhoni had 535 appearances for India in worldwide tournaments between 2004 and 2019.
Kohli now trails solely the nice Sachin Tendulkar, who holds the report for essentially the most caps of any worldwide cricket participant in historical past with 664 whereas taking part in for India between 1989 and 2013.
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India captain Rohit Sharma (486 caps) and Ravindra Jadeja (346 caps) spherical up the record of present cricketers after Kohli.
Nonetheless, Kohli was dismissed for a duck within the first innings of the primary Check.
Apparently, Kohli’s final duck in Check cricket was additionally in opposition to New Zealand of their final tour in 2021-22 on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai (32 innings earlier than).
