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- Updated: February 10, 2017
India’s captain Virat Kohli celebrates his 200 runs during a exam compare opposite Bangladesh during Uppal Stadium in Hyderabad on Friday. Pic/PTI
Indian captain Virat Kohli continued his unimaginable record-breaking debauch on Friday and assimilated a really chosen and disdainful bar that has cricket legends like Sir Donald Bradman, Rahul Dravid, Graeme Smith, Michael Clarke and Brian Lara as a undisputed leader.
Kohli assimilated a bar when he breached a 200-run symbol on day 2 during Hyderabad opposite Bangladesh on Friday. The 28-year-old so has turn a initial batsman in Test story to measure double centuries in 4 unbroken series.
The Team India skipper has now left past Australian fable Donald Bradman and India’s really possess Rahul Dravid, who both got double tons in 3 uninterrupted series.
Kohli strike his lass double hundred (200) during North Sound opposite a West Indies in Jul final year followed by 211 opposite New Zealand during Indore in October. This was followed by his stream career-best measure of 235 opposite England in Mumbai in Dec and now 204 opposite Bangladesh.
Kohli started Day 2 from his overnight 111 and afterwards scored his fourth 200 — that too in a fourth uninterrupted series.
The purple patch Kohli has strike has seen him set a new record of carrying scored a many runs in a home series.
He had damaged a record for many runs by a batsman in a home Test deteriorate on Day 1 itself, leading former team-mate Virender Sehwag’s symbol of 1105 in 2004-05.
He was eventually discharged for 204 in a second session. Kohli was finally trapped lbw off Bangladesh spinner Taijul Islam and walked off to a station acclaim from a rough home crowd.
India’s captain Virat Kohli kisses a margin after scoring his lass double-century during day dual of a initial cricket Test compare opposite West Indies during a Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua in Jul 2016. Pic/AP/PTI
Kohli had also scored double centuries in his 3 many new array opposite West Indies, New Zealand and England before reaching a 200-run symbol in a ongoing one-off Test in Hyderabad.
Kohli, who common a 222-run fourth-wicket mount with Ajinkya Rahane, strike 24 bounds during his 246-ball hit opposite a untimely Bangladesh attack.
India’s Virat Kohli during his dictatorial dominant hit on a initial day of a Test cricket compare between India and Bangladesh during The Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday. Pic/AFP
Kohli on Thursday finished 1000 runs in Tests played during home this season. In doing so he has to turn usually a third Indian batsmans and usually middle-order one to grasp a feat. The others who achieved this record Virender Sehwag and Sunil Gavaskar, both openers.
Kohli also became a third batsman to measure a double century during Hyderabad’s Uppal Stadium after New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum (225) and team-mate Cheteshwar Pujara (201). He averages over 50 in 54 Test matches with 16 hundreds and 14 half centuries. His top measure stays a 235 in a Mumbai Test opposite England final year.