Virat Kohli, Mohammed Shami on the verge of breaking individual records, India seeks to avoid unwanted records


By: Sports Desk |

Updated: December 1, 2020 6:50:34 pm





india teamMohammed Shami is poised to be the fastest Indian on 150 ODI wards; Virat Kohli is about to become the fastest in 12000 ODI races. (AP)

The India team is on the brink of a sixth consecutive loss in the ODI format, which will be the worst streak for the national team in the format since 1989. However, some all-time individual records will be broken in the 3rd ODI vs. Australia on Wednesday, even as India seeks to avoid a cover-up.

Kohli has now lost 5 ODIs on the trot and if he loses again on Wednesday, he will join Sunil Gavaskar as the Indian captain with the most consecutive losses in ODI. MS Dhoni, Ravi Shastri and Dilip Vengsarkar are the other Indian captains who lost 5 ODI at the trot as captain.

India’s worst losing streak came in 1981 when it lost 8 matches in a row, under the leadership of Sunil Gavaskar (7 matches) and Gundappa Viswanath (1 match).

Individual records

Mohammed shami, who has 148 lots in just 79 ODI, could become the fastest Indian to reach the 150 ODI milestone.

It is 2 windows away from the mark and could reach the mark in the third ODI. Ajit Agarkar (97 matches) is currently the fastest Indian pitcher in 150 ODI wickets

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Only Australian Mitchell Starc (77 matches) and Pakistani Saqlain Mushtaq (79) would be ahead of Shami in this record.

virat Kohli he is 23 races away from breaking Sachin Tendulkar’s record of being the fastest in 12,000 ODI races in ODI cricket.

Tendulkar holds the record for being the fastest with 12,000 ODI races in 300 innings. Kohli has 11,977 races in 250 ODIs with only 23 races remaining to reach this record.

From Australia Steve Smith aims to become the first Australian to score three straight 100s in ODI.

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