doha india football captain sunil chhetri isnt counting the number of goals he has scored in international football despite surpassing argentina star lionel messis tally chhetri added another feather to his illustrious cap as he overtook messi to become the secondhighest active international goalscorer on mondaychhetri achieved the feat when he struck a brace to help india defeat bangladesh 20 in the ongoing fifa world cup qatar 2022 and afc asian cup china qualifiers at the jassim bin hamad stadium at al sadd club in doharead alsoindia captain sunil chhetri goes past lionel messis tally of international goalsindia captain sunil chhetri achieved the staggering feat with his brace against bangladesh which made him the secondhighest active international goalscorer with 74 strikes and added another feather to his illustrious career india won the match 20sunil chhetri brace helps india beat bangladesh 20 in world cup qualifierindia recorded their first win in fifa world cup qualifiers in six years after talisman sunil chhetri struck twice for a 20 victory over bangladesh in the joint preliminary round match on mondaythe 36yearold chhetri scored both his goals in the second half of the match to hand india a thrilling winyou know i dont on being asked is he counting on a number of goals once im done in ten years we will talk about all my goals chhetri said after the match in a video posted on indian football team twitterchhetri has now scored 74 goals two more than messi and is only behind portugal star cristiano ronaldo 103 in the list of active footballers with the most international goals ali mabkhout is third on the list having scored 73 goalsduring the match chhetri broke the deadlock in the 78th minute when he headed in ashique kuruniyans cross from the left he then sealed the result by curling in a shot from long range in added time to win the match 20 for the blue tigersit was tough frustrating at times we missed a lot of chances could have done a lot of things better but in the end we are happy that we got the three points which were needed said chhetriwe probably should have done a lot of things better anyways to win full three points and game is always sweet im really happy that we also kept a clean sheet he addedlast week qatar had defeated 10man india 10 in the tournament it has been a topsyturvy qualifier we had some decent performances but we werent able to show any result said chhetriindia moved to six points from seven matches while bangladesh is at two points from seven matches india next play afghanistan in their last group league match on june 15