Virat Kohli breaks Brian Lara's record for most twofold centuries
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Virat Kohli breaks Brian Lara's record for most twofold centuries
NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli scaled yet another development, turning into the main captain to hit six twofold centuries in Test cricket.
The 29-year-old Indian along these lines outperformed West Indies incredible Brian Lara, who held the record beforehand with five twofold tons in Tests.
India's present 'Point of reference Man', who had copied Rahul Dravid with his past twofold century in Nagpur, today equalled Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag for greatest number of twofold hundreds for India in Tests.
Tendulkar had scored six twofold centuries, while Sehwag hit a record four twofold and two triple tons for India.
Playing in his 63rd Test, Kohli scored his record 6th Test twofold hundred on the second day of the continuous third and last Test against Sri Lanka at the Feroz Shah Kotla here. This is likewise the second twofold century on the run for the Indian skipper.
Kohli pulled pacer Suranga Lakmal and ran two to raise his 6th twofold century in 238 balls, which included 20 limits.
He is likewise just the second Indian after Vinod Kambli to score consecutive twofold hundreds. In 1993, the previous left-gave batsman had scored 224 against England in Mumbai and 227 against Zimbabwe in Delhi.
By and large, Kohli is in the 6th place in the rundown of most twofold hundreds out of a vocation, which is bested by Australian legend Don Bradman (12), trailed by Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara (11), Lara (9), England's Wally Hammond (7) and Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene (7).
Recently, Kohli had turned into the primary skipper to hit three progressive hundreds out of a three-Test arrangement.
The India skipper additionally finished his individual 5000 keeps running in the longest form of the amusement, turning into the eleventh Indian batsman to accomplish the point of reference.
Kohli took 105 innings to cross the 5000-stamp, turning into the fourth quickest to accomplish the accomplishment as far as innings behind Sunil Gavaskar (95), Virender Sehwag (99) and Sachin Tendulkar (103).