India vs New Zealand, World Cup 2023: Kohli looks to go level with Tendulkar, and other records that could be broken

India take on New Zealand in match 21 of the 2023 ODI World Cup in Dharamsala on Sunday. Both teams will be coming into the match with high confidence following a few comprehensive wins, that have set their campaign going. World Cup 2023: News | Schedule | Results | Points table Both India and New Zealand are unbeaten in the tournament so far, after four matches, and occupy the top two spots with eight points each. Only the net run-rate separates the two sides, with New Zealand in first place and India in second.

India have not beaten New Zealand in any match of an ICC tournament since 2003, with the Men in Blue’s last win over the Kiwis in such a tournament coming in the 2003 World Cup. Apart from looking to better their ICC record against New Zealand, some of them will have sights set on bettering personal records in Sunday’s game. Let’s take a look at some of them:

• Should Virat Kohli score a century on Sunday, he will go level with Sachin Tendulkar for most ODI hundreds. When Virat Kohli scored his century against Bangladesh, that was his 48th overall in ODIs, just one shy of Tendulkar.
• Rohit Sharma is only 46 runs behind Virat Kohli as far as most runs in World Cups are concerned. Kohli, with 1289 runs, nis fourth in the list, behind Tendulkar (2278), Ricky Ponting (1743) and Kumar Sangakkara (1532). Rohit Sharma is fifth with 1243 runs.
• Virat Kohli is only 88 runs behind Sanath Jayasuriya in ODIs. While Jayasuriya finished his ODI cricket career with 13,430 runs, Kohli has so far amassed 13, 342 runs in the ODI format.
• Mohammed Shami needs just one more wicket to go past Anil Kumble’s record of 31 scalps in ODI World Cups. Kumble had finished his World Cup career with 31 wickets from 18 games.
• Shubman Gill is just 14 runs away from becoming the quickest to 2000 runs in ODI cricket. Hashim Amla is the current holder of that record, having taken 40 innings to do so. Gill currently has 1,986 runs from 37 innings.