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Just under a year after going past Sachin Tendulkar's long-held ODI century record and scoring his 50th century, Virat Kohli now stands just 58 runs away from another mind-boggling record held by Sachin for years.

The former India skipper is all set to feature in the upcoming two-match Test series against Bangladesh with the first game starting on September 19.

Virat Kohli to surpass Sachin's record for the fastest to score 27,000 international runs:

Virat Kohli who currently sits on 26,942 runs in international cricket across all formats, will potentially go past the 27,000 run mark in the upcoming home Test series and will break Tendulkar's long-standing record of the quickest to reach 27,000 international runs.

Only two others, Kumar Sangakkara (28,016) and Ricky Ponting (27,483) have ever scored more than the landmark runs and sit between the two Indian greats.

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While the now 53-year-old took 623 innings to achieve the milestone, the modern-day great, Virat, has only played 591 innings thus far, giving him 32 more innings to just score another 58 runs.

In all possibilities, Kohli will break Tendulkar's recording in the upcoming Test series against Bangladesh on home soil. 

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Top 10 players with most international runs:

BatterRuns ScoredInnings Taken
Sachin Tendulkar (IND)34,357782
Kumar Sangakkara (SL)28,016666
Ricky Ponting (AUS)27,483668
Virat Kohli (IND)26,942591
Mahela Jayawardene (SL)25,957725
Jacques Kallis (SA)25,534617
Rahul Dravid (IND)24,208605
Brian Lara (WI)22,358521
Sanath Jayasuriya (SL)21,032651
Shivnaraine Chanderpaul (WI)20,988553

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Mayank Bande is a content producer for The Sporting News’ India edition.