Virat 200TH Kohli: Indian skipper hit 5th ton against Lankan.
Virat 200TH Kohli: Indian skipper hit 5th ton against Lankan.
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Every time India skipper Virat Kohli walks out to bat, he lifts the bat in air to celebrate a new record and now its being regular since he show his temperament and his classic shot and consistency in the game . The unstoppable run-machine of India Virat Kohli added yet another record to his decorated cricket book, as he slammed the fifth double hundred of his career on the third day of second Test against Sri Lanka in Nagpur. The 29-year-old has now joined Legendary batsmen of West Indies Brian Lara, one of the greatest batsmen of all time, with the most number of double tons 5th  as a Test captain. Earlier in the day, Kohli scored his 19th Test century while batting Sri Lanka out of the Nagpur Test.

 

 

With this, Kohli has marker his 10th international hundred in this calendar year, and has surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record of most centuries as an Indian skipper. He now has the same number of Test 100s as former West Indies cricketer Clive Lloyd, Australia's Mark Taylor and Michael Hussey, Barbadian cricketer Gordon Greenidgea and Len Hutton of England. En route to this milestone, he has outclassed Australia's Ricky Ponting who score 9 in 2005 and 2006 respectively and South Africa's Graeme Smith (9 in 2005) for the most centuries by a captain in a calendar year. 

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