Former India captain Virat Kohli achieved another milestone during the first day of the first Test match between India and Sri Lanka. Playing his 100th Test match, Kohli completed 8000 runs in Test cricket and became the sixth Indian batsman to achieve the feat. In the 39th over of the innings, Kohli directed the ball towards point and took a single and entered the 8k club. The batting maestro took 169 innings to break this mark.
Meanwhile, he is the fifth fastest Indian to score 8000 runs as batting great Sachin Tendulkar tops the list after achieving the feat in 154 innings, followed by current India head coach Rahul Dravid (157 innings).
Innings of 8000 Test runs for India
- 154 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 157 – Rahul Dravid
- 160 – Virender Sehwag
- 166 – Sunil Gavaskar
- 169 – Virat Kohli
- 201 – VVS Laxman
Considered one of the finest batsmen of the modern era, Kohli has become the 12th Indian cricketer to play 100 Tests.
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He has also become the second player to reach the historic milestone in the 100th Test. He joins the great Australian captain Ricky Ponting in this list. Ponting made his 8k club debut against South Africa in Sydney in 2006.
Earlier, Kohli was honored by the BCCI on Friday in memory of his historic 100th Test match – the first against Sri Lanka here.
“In current cricket, with the three formats and the amount of cricket we play, with the IPL, the only way out is if the next generation can take that from my Test career, I was able to try and play through the purest format of it. game and reach 100 Test matches,” Kohli said this morning after being felicitated by head coach Rahul Dravid ahead of the match.
The 33-year-old came out to bat in the 19th over when India lost opener Mayank Agarwal. He went off the mark with an edge while trying to flick a delivery from Lasith Embuldeniya, but it didn’t take long for him to settle down as he played his shots freely. However, the former India captain once again failed to convert a decent total into a big total as he was deceived by a sharp turn from Embuldeniya and was dismissed for 45.
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