Chase master Virat Kohli created a unique world record by playing an inning of 85 runs, becoming number 1 by defeating Sachin-Sangakkara.

Indian team's star batsman Virat Kohli created history with his innings against Australia on Sunday (October 8) in the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 match played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Kohli batted brilliantly and scored 85 runs in 116 balls with the help of 6 fours. While trying to play a big shot on Josh Hazlewood's ball, Kohli was caught by Marnus Labuschagne and could not complete the 48th century of his ODI career. In this innings, he made many special records.

Became the greatest chase master of ODI 

Kohli has reached the first position in terms of scoring most runs in successful run chase in ODI. After this innings he has scored 5517 runs in successful run chases. Earlier this record was in the name of Sachin Tendulkar, who had scored 5490 runs in successful run chases in ODIs.

Made a unique world record

Kohli has made the record of playing innings of 50 or more runs most number of times as a non-opening batsman in One Day International. This is the 113th fifty plus score of Kohli's ODI career. In this matter he left Kumar Sangakkara (112) behind. 

Sachin Tendulkar's record broken

Kohli has become the highest run-scorer Indian batsman in ICC limited overs tournament. He broke the record of Sachin Tendulkar, who had scored 2719 runs in 58 innings. Kohli has left Tendulkar behind in 64 innings. 

11000 ODI runs at number 3

Kohli has become the second batsman to score 11000 or more runs while batting at number three in ODIs. Before him, only Ricky Ponting (12662) had achieved this feat.

equaled Rohit Sharma

Kohli has reached joint second position in terms of scoring the highest fifty plus score in the ODI World Cup for India. Kohli has the 9th fifty plus score in the history of this tournament and equals Rohit Sharma. Sachin Tendulkar is at first place with 21 fifty plus scores.

It is noteworthy that the Indian team, which came to chase the target of 200 runs, had a bad start and the first 3 wickets fell at the score of only 2 runs. After this, Kohli along with KL Rahul took charge of the innings and made a partnership of 165 runs for the fourth wicket.