AB de Villiers Races Past Sourav Ganguly, is Fastest to Reach 8000 ODI Runs

Durban: AB de Villiers continue to shatter records in ODIs. The South African added one more feather to his cap when he became the fastest to reach 8000 ODI runs during the third ODI against New Zealand in Durban on Wednesday.

De Villiers went past 8000 runs in just his 182nd innings, 18 innings quicker than India’s Sourav Ganguly and 28 innings quicker than Sachin Tendulkar, the leading run-scorer in ODIs.

Ganguly scored 8000 runs in his 200th ODI innings against West Indies in Nagpur in 2002. Before Ganguly, Tendulkar had achieved the mark in his 210th ODI innings during the 1999 World Cup match against Pakistan in Old Trafford.