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Virat Kohli Breaks Sachin Tendulkar's Record Of Most Runs In A Single World Cup Edition

image-lozo650xVirat Kohli during his knock against New Zealand (AP Photos)

Virat Kohli is a legend of the game and there is no denying that fact. The man has played number of match-winning knocks in the last decade or so and has broken plenty of records on the way. At the age of just 22, Kohli became a World Champion under the shadows of stalwarts like Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni to name a few.

Since then, he has been touted as the man who can break Sachin's plethora of batting records and with 49 ODI centuries to his name currently, he is all set to break Sachin's record of most hundreds in ODIs. However, before that, he has now broken Sachin's Magical World Cup record of most runs in a single edition during his classy knock against the Kiwis in World Cup 2023 semifinal.

Sachin Tendulkar scored 673 runs in the 2003 World Cup edition and since then, for 20 years Sachin ruled the world with this elite World Cup batting record. Matthew Hayden came close in 2007 and scored 659 runs while Rohit Sharma scored 648 runs in the 2019 edition.

However, the record has been finally and fittingly broken by the man who has always been compared with the legend and it seems that Kohli would go onto become the first man in history to score 700 runs in single World Cup edition.