Colombo (Sri Lanka): The white ball captain stands India Shikhar Dhawan up 6000 odi running on Sunday.
As a result, he is now the 10th Indian Batsman to do so in a 50-over format.
He achieved the achievement at the first ODI ongoing from the three-match series against Sri Lanka here at the Stadium R Premadasa in Colombo.
Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, MS Dhoni, Mohamed Azharuddin, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag is nine other batsmen who have scored more than 6000 runs in ODI format.
Previously, India continued to take a goal at a regular interval, but the beat of Chamika Karunaratne who was unbeaten 43 help Sri Lanka Post 262/9.
For India, Kuldeep Chahar, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Deepak Chahar returned with two of their respective nints.
Choosing for the first bat, Sri Lanka started steadily as the opening of Avishka Fernando and Minod Bhanuka wearing 49 running in the first nine.
However, the introduction of Yuzvendra Chahal paid directly on the 10th because the leg-spinner was dismissed Fernando (32).
Bhanuka Rajapaksa then joined Minod in the middle and the duo was placed on 36 runs for the second goal, but the holder was cut short on the 17th when Kuldeep Yadav sent Rajapaksa (24) back to the pavilion.
At the same time, Kuldeep has Minod (27) caught on the first slip and as a result, Sri Lanka decreases to 89/3.
Dhananjaya de Silva (14) was disappointed with the bat when he entered the deep shot on the blanket, but he only managed to catch the catch to Bhuvneshwar Kumar from Bowling Krunal Pandya, and Sri Lanka was abandoned in a disturbing place on 117/4.
Skipper Shanaka and Charith Asalanka then gathered in the fold and both batterst moved the scoreboard slowly and continuously.
However, the 49-run stands between the two batterst ended by Deepak Chahar on the 38th when he fired Asalanka (38), reducing Sri Lanka to 166/5.
Shanaka plays the knock of 39 run, but Indian Bowlers managed to keep checking and as a result, the host was limited below the 265-run sign.
In Over Final, Dushmantha Chameera (13) and Chamika Karunaratne (43 *) hit a number of valuable big shots to give Sri Lankan competitive scores in the match.
Shikhar Dhawan became the 10 Indian Batsman to score 6000 ODI
