Since the two ducks in Australia in October, Kohli has been in total command. His scores since then have been 74* (against Australia), 135, 102 and 65* (all against South Africa), and now 93 against New Zealand, totalling 469 runs in his last five innings at an average of over 155. On Sunday night, he went past 28,000 international runs (28,068) – the quickest to reach the mark – and overtook Kumar Sangakkara (28,016) to become the second-leading run-getter in international cricket, behind Sachin Tendulkar (34,357).
