Virat Kohli 500th:Virat Kohli is playing in his 500th match for India outside of India. After getting 87 runs on the first day of the second test, Virat Kohli did not get out. With this game, he has now scored 25,548 runs in international cricket.
IND vs WI: India and West Indies are playing the second Test match of the series in Port of Spain. This is the 100th time that these two countries have played a Test match. Also Virat Kohli’s 500th match for India outside of India. After getting 87 runs on the first day of the second test, Virat Kohli did not get out. With this game, he has now scored 25,548 runs in international cricket. He got to number 5 on the list of international cricket players with the most runs. South African experienced all-rounder Jacques Kallis was left behind. In 519 games, Kallis has scored 25,534 runs.
Tendulkar-Dhoni and other great players were left behind.
With a four over cover, Virat Kohli gets to his 50th run. In his 500th international match, he became the first player to score a half-century. Kohli joined Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ricky Ponting, Shahid Afridi, and Jacques Kallis as the 10th player in history to play 500 international matches.
Before him Sachin Tendulkar (664), Mahela Jayawardene (652), Kumar Sangakkara (594), Sanath Jayasuriya (586), Ricky Ponting (560), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (538), Shahid Afridi (524), Jacques Kallis (519) And Rahul Dravid (509) has done so.
Kohli told BCCI.TV before the match that he was very thankful to have reached this goal. I feel very lucky that I have been able to play for India for so long and in so many Tests, because I have worked very hard for it.
Rohit-Yashaswi started off well
Team India had a good start, even though they lost the toss. Captain Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal played carefully, and by lunch, India had made 121 runs in 26 overs without losing a wicket. Then, Team India was hitting about five runs per minute. Rohit and Yashasvi worked together to score 139 runs before the first wicket fell. This was the best start to a match by any Indian pair at Port of Spain.
Gill failed again and was in third place
Jaiswal kept his shape. In 74 balls, he got 57 runs. After Yashasvi was out, Shubman Gill came out to bat as the new number three. But he got this number wrong on the second Test in a row. After Cheteshwar Pujara was kicked out, India is looking for a new number-three. Shubman had said that he wanted to be number three, but it looks like he doesn’t like this number. After he got 10 runs, Kemar Roach caught him, and wicketkeeper Joshua caught him again.
