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Virat Kohli & Rohit Sharma Join Sachin Tendulkar For Huge Record In IND-SL

image-loh1qrfrVirat Kohli in action against SL at the 2023 World Cup (AP Photo)

Virat Kohli notched up a fine half-century against Sri Lanka, his fifth fifty-plus score of the 2023 World Cup as he continues to pile on his golden run with the bat. The cricketer arrived to the crease within the opening over of the innings following captain Rohit Sharma’s early dismissal.

Much to the dismay of the Mumbai crowd, Sharma was cleaned up by Dilshan Madushanka in just the second ball of the match after he had flicked a boundary down the legside.

Regardless of Sharma’s early dismissal and Kohli’s sublime counterattacking approach, both cricketers have managed to join batting great Sachin Tendulkar for a huge all-time World Cup record.

Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma join Tendulkar in a rare club

Through the course of their recent knocks against Sri Lanka, both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli managed to extend their World Cup 2023 tally beyond the 400-run mark. While Sharma had entered the contest with 398 runs to his name, the boundary he hit off the first ball before his eventual dismissal now places him among the top five run-getters of the competition with 402 runs.

Meanwhile, Kohli raced past David Warner (413 runs) and Rachin Ravindra (415 runs) to jump to number two position among the highest run-aggregators of the tournament.

Notably, this is the second successive World Cup event where both Kohli and Sharma have managed to rake in over 400 runs in a single edition. The two cricketers also stacked up big runs in the 2019 edition in England, with Kohli minting 443 runs and Sharma finishing as the top run-getter with 648 runs.

Their latest feat puts them on par with all-time great Sachin Tendulkar, who also scaled over 400 runs in a single World Cup edition on more than one occasion. Interestingly, Tendulkar did so in three separate World Cup events (1996, 2003 and 2011) and he continues to remain the only Indian cricketer in history to do so.