Virat Kohli surpasses another Sachin Tendulkar's record as the fastest India Test skipper to reach 1000 runs away from home. Virat Kohli became the quickest among India captains to reach 1000 Test runs outside India in the course of his 15th half-century. Sachin Tendulkar got to 1000 runs away from home as India's Test skipper in 19 innings - Kohli got there in only 17. Kohli's sublime fifty along with Abhinav Mukund's second fifty, stretched India's massive lead over Sri Lanka on the third day of the first Test at Galle.