Virat Kohli created new record in Sydney
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| Virat Kohli Created NEW RECORD in Sydney Test |
Even if Australia is on
the verge of winning the series, there is no way to stop the Indians from
breaking the records. The test series is ongoing between Australia and India,
in which Australia is leading with 2-0. Interesting things happened in this
series,Virat Kohli was made captain for the very first time for the first test
match. Then Mahendera Singh Dhoni came back for the captaincy of two tests and
declared his retirement on the third test match and Virat Kohli was again made
captain for the Fourth and Final Test Match at Australia.
Virat Kohli on Thursday
became the first Test skipper to score three centuries in first three innings.
The 26-year-old as captain scored three centuries under his captaincy three
innings.
On the third day of the
last test match between India and Australia, Virat scored his third century as
a captain. It was his fourth century in the whole series. Virat will continue
playing on Friday from his score140.
In Adelaide Test, he
scored 115 and 141; he scored his best at Melbourne. His highest being 169 in
third test matches. Kohli has scored 10
Test hundreds within 33 matches.
Kohli on Thursday also
became the second Indian batsman after Sunil Gavaskar to score four tons in a
Test series. After MS Dhoni's retirement from Tests, Kohli has taken charge of
the Test team as its captain.
It was a day of records
at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) for the Indians, who made the best of the
opportunity to score on a rather placid track The Sydeny Cricket Ground was not
only effective for Virat Kohli, Lokesh Rahul also scored a century making India
on respectful position of score 342/5 on the third day of Sydney Test. Lokesh
Rahul overcame the horror of Melbourne to compile a century.There are no
chances for India to lose by an innings.
Here are other records of Virat Kohli on Sydney Test Ground-
·Virat Kohli became the first player to notch up three
successive
hundreds as a Test captain. He scored twin hundreds on captaincy
debut at Adelaide before the ton here.
·
This was Virat Kohli's fourth hundreds of the series. He has
now
equalled Sunil Gavaskar for the most number of hundreds in a single
series.
Gavaskar has scored four hundreds, twice in his career, against
West Indies.
· Kohli now has 5 Test hundreds in Australia. He is in the
joint fourth
position along with Clive Lloyd, Sunil Gavaskar and David Gower.
Herbert Sutcliffe, with 9 hundreds leads the pack.
· Kohli is only the third batsman to score 4 Test hundreds in
a series
Australia. Herbert Sutcliffe and Sir Wally Hammond are the other
two players to achieve the feat.
· Having already broken the record for most runs by a Indian
number
four batsman in a Test series, Virat Kohli now has scored the most
runs
by any visiting Indian batsman in Australia. When he reached
121, he had gone
past Dravid's record of 619 runs he had scored
during the 2003/04 season.
That’s all from the India vs Australia Test match series. Stay tuned for
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wow....India is doing well in match.
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