Team India skipper Virat Kohli scored 41 in the second ODI against England, replacing former South African captain Graeme Smith in a special case of captaincy. In addition, Virat is also in the top-5 list of most ODI internationals as captain. Graeme Smith has scored 5416 ODIs in his account as captain, Virat has now surpassed him. Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting is in first place.

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Ponting, as captain, has scored 8497 runs in 220 innings. Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is the second highest run-getter in the case, has scored 6641 ODIs in 172 innings. Former New Zealand captain Steven Fleming, who is third in the case, has scored 6295 ODI runs in 208 innings. Arjun Ranatunga is fourth in terms of scoring the most runs in ODIs as captain. Ranatunga has scored 5608 runs in 183 innings.

In the 2nd ODI, India made one and three changes to England’s XI.

Speaking of Virat Kohli, he left Graeme Smith as captain in the 90th innings. If Virat were to score and play at the same pace, in this case he could break Ricky Ponting’s world record.