Kohli has a chance to join Sachin-Dravid’s special club with big achievement in test against New Zealand:

Delhi: After defeating Bangladesh in the Test and T20 series, the Indian cricket team will now face New Zealand. Team India has to play a three-match Test series against the Kiwi team at home, which will start from October 16. The first test of this series will be played in Bengaluru and in this match, the great batsman of the Indian team, Virat Kohli can make his place in a special club.

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Virat has left for Bengaluru for the first test. After the end of the Test series against Bangladesh, he had gone to London to meet his wife Anushka Sharma and children, but now he is back and has gone to Bengaluru to prepare for the Test match.

In the first test against New Zealand, Virat can get a chance to join the special club of 1000 runs. For this he needs only 134 runs. So far, Virat has scored 866 runs in 21 innings of 11 Test matches against New Zealand at an average of 45.58, which includes 3 centuries and 3 half-centuries. If he scores 134 runs, he will become the third Indian batsman to complete 1000 runs in Test against New Zealand.

At present, Virat is at fifth place in the list of Indian batsmen who have scored the most runs against New Zealand, but after scoring 2 runs, he will leave behind fourth place Cheteshwar Pujara (867 runs). Also, by scoring 18 runs, there will be a chance to leave Virender Sehwag (883 runs) behind.

The list of Indian players who have scored the most runs in Tests against New Zealand is as follows –

Rahul Dravid- 1659 runs
Sachin Tendulkar- 1595 runs
Virender Sehwag- 883 runs
Cheteshwar Pujara- 867 runs
Virat Kohli- 866 runs

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