Top 10 players with the most ODIs for India: On Sunday, former India captain Virat Kohli became only the seventh Indian player and the 22nd overall in the world to feature in 300 ODI matches when he was named in India’s playing XI against New Zealand in their ICC Champions Trophy 2025 clash in Dubai.
India and New Zealand both have sealed their places in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy. From the other group, Australia and South Africa have qualified for the semis, and both have arrived in Dubai, with one of them to take on India on March 4, while the other will fly back to Lahore with New Zealand for their semi-final clash on March 5.
Virat Kohli gets his 300th ODI cap; check out his stats:
Kohli joined the list that included only six Indian players before him who played in 300 ODI matches. He made his ODI debut in 2008.
Top 10 players with the most ODIs for India
- Sachin Tendulkar – 463 matches
- MS Dhoni – 347 matches
- Rahul Dravid – 340 matches
- Mohammad Azharuddin – 334 matches
- Sourav Ganguly – 308 matches
- Yuvraj Singh – 301 matches
- Virat Kohli – 300* matches
- Rohit Sharma – 271* matches
- Anil Kumble – 269 matches
- Virender Sehwag – 241 matches
Kohli recently became only the third batsman in the history of ODI cricket to rack up 14000 ODI runs, joining Sachin Tendulkar and Kumar Sangakkara. He is the third-highest ODI run-scorer with 14085 runs and is expected to cross Sangakkara (14234 runs), while Tendulkar (18426) remains a distance apart.
Kohli already is the highest century-hitter in ODIs, with 51 tons to his name.
Meanwhile, New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner has won the toss in the IND vs NZ matches and elected to bowl first.
Teams:
India: Shubman Gill, Rohit Sharma (c), Virat Kohli, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Varun Chakravarthy, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav
New Zealand: Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Kane Williamson, Tom Latham (wk), Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner (c), Matt Henry, Michael Bracewell, Kyle Jamieson, William O’Rourke
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