Virat Kohli hits 7th double century, goes past Sachin Tendulkar record

Kohli's seventh double century in Test cricket

Captain Virat Kohli has given his seventh double century of Test career. The interesting thing is that all his seven double hundreds Kohli have applied as captain. Kohli tops the list of batsmen who have scored the most double centuries as captain. In this list, West Indies legend Brian Lara is at number two with 5 double centuries.

Maximum double century in Test as captain

7 - Virat Kohli

5 - Brian Lara

4 - Sir Don Bradman / Graeme Smith / Michael Clarke

VIRAT KOHLI'S DOUBLE CENTURIES IN TESTS:

YEAR   SCORE    OPPONENT           VENUE
2016    200          West Indies                North Sound
2016    211        New Zealand                Indore
2016    235         England                       Mumbai
2017    204        Bangladesh                  Hyderabad
2017    213        Sri Lanka                     Nagpur
2017    243       Sri Lanka                      Delhi
2019    200*     South Africa                 Pune

Virat completed 26th Test century

Captain Virat Kohli has scored the 26th century of his Test career. Kohli scored his 26th Test century in the 138th innings of his 81st Test match. Kohli has come second in the list of batsmen who have scored 26 centuries in the lowest innings in Test cricket. On behalf of India, Sachin Tendulkar achieved this position in 136 innings, while Sunil Gavaskar had scored 26 Test centuries in 144 innings.



This test match is the 50th Test match of Virat Kohli as captain. He is the second captain of India to do so. Prior to that, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has captained more than 50 Test matches for India.