Star batter Virat Kohli on Sunday became the first India to complete 11,000 runs in T20 history.
Kohli achieved this feat during the second T20I against South Africa here at Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati on Sunday. In the match after scoring 19 runs, Virat became the fastest to reach 11,000 T20 runs in just 354 matches. Kohli slammed a stunning six over the long-off in the Wayne Parnell's over to reach this milestone. With that six in Parnell's over Kohli registered his name in the history book to become the first India to complete 11,000 runs in T20 history.
During the match, Kohli displayed his class. For a moment, everything was mesmerized by the beautiful shots that Suryakumar was playing but Kohli made his presence count with some quality shots around the park.
In the match, India batter Suryakumar Yadav also entered the elite list as he completed 1000 runs in T20I and became the third fastest Indian batter to achieve this feat.
Talking about the match, Kohli batted till the end, however could not get his half-century as he was left stranded on 49 with Dinesh Karthik finishing off the Indin innings strongly to hand South Africa a total of 238 to chase for the win.
(With inputs from ANI)
