Delhi: On this day, exactly 10 years ago, Virat Kohli was given the captaincy of the Indian Test team. He took over the responsibility of captaining the Indian Test team after Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Virat Kohli captained the Indian Test team for almost 8 years, and now Rohit Sharma is leading Team India in Test cricket from 2022.
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Virat’s captaincy records are fantastic
Virat Kohli’s statistics as captain have been excellent. He led the Indian team in 68 test matches, out of which the team won 40 matches.
India lost only 17 tests under Virat’s captaincy.
Under the captaincy of Virat Kohli, the Indian team lost 17 test matches, while 11 test matches were drawn. In this way, Virat Kohli’s tenure as Test captain was very successful. Kohli has been the most successful as an Indian Test captain. He also performed brilliantly as a batsman, especially on the pitches of countries like Australia, South Africa, England and New Zealand.
India won the test series in Australia for the first time
In the year 2018-19, Team India had to go to Australia to play Border Gavaskar Trophy, no one expected that Team India would do anything special on this tour. But, Virat Kohli had his eyes only on the trophy. Kohli led Team India to a 2-1 victory in this series with his attacking captaincy. In which the victories in Adelaide and Melbourne were historic, and Virat also became the first Indian and Asian captain to win a Test series in Australia.
Virat Kohli’s records in test cricket
Currently Kohli is playing in Team India as a batsman. He has played 120 Test matches so far, in which he has scored 9163 runs in 205 innings at an average of 47.72. During this period he has also scored 30 centuries and 31 half-centuries. His highest score in Test cricket has been 254* runs.