India skipper Virat Kohli is on a record-breaking spree and he rewrote the record jointly held by former India captain Sourav Ganguly and left-handed batsman Yuvraj Singh. India defeated the West Indies by nine wickets in the fifth and final ODI at Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday and clinched the series 3-1.
The man in form though won his seventh Man-of-the-Series (MoS) award to match Ganguly and Singh. The only man ahead of Kohli is none other than Sachin Tendulkar who has 15 such awards to his credit in his ODI career.
Kohli amassed 453 runs with an astonishing average of 151 was a runaway winner of the MoS award on Thursday. The skipper is now behind two foreigners Sanath Jayasuriya (11) and Shaun Pollock (9) in terms of the MoS award with Tendulkar heading the chart.
The Delhi batsman is now on par with the likes of West Indian Vivian Richards, Australian Ricky Ponting and Hashim Amla of South Africa.
During the series Kohli made it to the coveted list players who scored 10,000 or more runs on one-day internationals and he broke the record of Tendulkar to become the fastest to reach the milestone.
It may be recalled that Kohli has been going through a purple patch in his career and has scored plenty of runs across all format in the last few years. The India captain is regarded as the best batsman in the world by many experts.
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