Kane Williamson creates history by scoring over 19000 international runs; Here are others part of the list

In high-stakes semi finals clash against South Africa, New Zealand's Kane Williamson has etched history by becoming first player from his country to be fastest to score 19,000 runs.

Additionally, he now ranks 4th to be the fastest one in the world to achieve the feat in 440 innings.

New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner won the toss and elected to bat first in the second semi-final of the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy against South Africa on Wednesday.


Here's top players to achieve the feat:

• Virat Kohli: 399 innings
• Sachin Tendulkar: 432 innings
• Brian Lara: 433 innings
• Kane Williamson: 440 innings

While South Africa finished atop Group A, and New Zealand were the second-ranked side in Group B.

Captain of New Zealand, Mitchell Santner said after winning the toss, "We are gonna have a bat first, looks like a good wicket, looks a bit dry. Privileged to captain my country and for us it's to play good cricket. We got the same team. Last game was foreign conditions, we have played a few games here in the tri-series. Will try to play good cricket and put pressure on them."

South African captain, Temba Bavuma said, "We are not too concerned but the preference would have been to bat, our bowlers need to bowl well and then our batters need to do the job. Just one change, myself, I'm feeling much better. We have had learnings from semi-finals and finals. We need to win the key moments. We are doing a lot of work, lots of confidence, it's another game for us irrespective of it being the semi-final."

South Africa (Playing XI): Ryan Rickelton, Temba Bavuma(c), Rassie van der Dussen, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen(w), David Miller, Wiaan Mulder, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi

New Zealand (Playing XI): Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham(w), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner(c), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, William ORourke.