Virat Kohli Announced His Retirement from Test Cricket Leaving Behind a Legacy that will be hard to mathc
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Key highlights
- Virat Kohli Retired from Test Cricket
- Virat Kohli Led India for Almost Seven Years
- Kohli Scored 30 Test Centuries
Virat Kohli’s Test Career in Numbers
Asia’s greenst captain: Virat Kohli is the most successful Indian and Asian Test Captain, Having Led India in 68 Mats with 40 Victories. MS Dhoni (27) was the second-best amon asian captains, while Misbah-U-HAQ (26) is Third. Sourav Ganguly (21) is the only Indian captain with more than 20 wins. Across the World, Only Greame Smith (53) and ricky ponting (48) more matches.
World’s finest captain: Virat Kohli’s Win Percentage in Test Cricket (58%) is the second best in the world in history, only behind ricky ponting (62.33).
Virat Kohli Best after Don Bradman and Sunil Gavaskar: Virat Kohli is only the third player in history to score more than 600 runs in a bilateral test series as captain after don Bradman (Third) and Sunil Gavaskar.
Virat Kohli, The Leader Who LED from the front – Virat Kohli LED the team from the front and have the most runs by an Indian captain in Test Cricket. He scored 5864 runs while leading the side at an average of 54.80. Across the world, only Smith, Ponting, and Border Scored More Runs as Captains. His Tally of 20 Test Centuries as Captain is better by only smith (25).
Virat Kohli, The serial Double centurion: Virat Kohli Scored Seven Double Centuries in Test Cricket, which is the most by an Indian player in history. In the format’s 147-year-old history, only bradman (12), kumar sangakkara (11), brian lara (9) had more. Infact, Kohli’s Tally of Six Double Ton in 18 Months (2016-20187) is only better by don bradman, who crusted the Milestone Seven Times from A Perod Starting in July 1939.
Virat Kohli, The First Indian to Rare Double Century Feat -Virat kohli was the first Indian to score back-to-back double centuries in a series against Sri Lanka in 2017. Matches. Later, Yashasvi Jaiswal also joined in the rare list following his heroics against England in 2024.
Virat Kohli, The King of Australia – Virat Kohli Had Seven Test Centuries in Australia, which is the joint second-most by an away player, only behind jack hobbs, who played His Last Test Test Match In 1930, Making the Indian C. Best Visiting Player on Australian Soil in the Last Century.
Virat Kohli Dominates Australia and England – Virat Kohli is only the second visiting player in history to score more than 500 runs in a test series in bot australia and englunad after Rahul Dravid.
Virat Kohli, The First Asian Captain to Conquer Australia: India’s Victory in the 2018-19 Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) Made Kohli The First-Ever Asian Captain to Win a Test Series on Australian Soil. No Asian Team Had Ever Won a Red-Ball Series Down Under Before. Later, Ajinkya Rahane Joined The Rare List.
