New Delhi: Under the captaincy of Virat Kohli, the attitude of India's fast bowlers is changed. The current pace attack in Team India has a great combination of edge, speed and aggression, everything. After the first innings of the Cape Town Test, now Indian fast bowlers have brought Virat Kohli in the category of great captains. Team India's fast bowlers have now added Kohli's name to the club of two legend Test captains in cricket history.
First, know the reason why Virat Kohli's name is associated with two great Test captains. Actually, 4 fast bowlers of Team India have taken more than 100 Test wickets under the captaincy of Kohli. So far in the history of Test cricket of the world, there have been only 2 such captains, under whose captaincy 4 or more fast bowlers have taken more than 100 wickets in their name. Of these, 7 fast bowlers were under the captaincy of South Africa's Graeme Smith. On the second number is the name of the great West Indies captain Kyle Lloyd, under whose leadership 5 fast bowlers have taken more than 100 Test wickets.
Jasprit Bumrah was the fourth pacer to take more than 100 Test wickets under Virat Kohli, who achieved the feat by taking 5 blows in the first innings of the Cape Town Test. Before him, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav had taken 100 Test wickets under Kohli. Mohammed Shami has taken the highest number of 167 Test wickets under Virat's captaincy. Ishant Sharma is second only to him with 121 wickets. Umesh Yadav has 104 wickets to his name. While Jasprit Bumrah has taken 102 wickets till the first innings of the Cape Town Test.
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