Virat Kohli broke Viv Richards: Virat Kohli’s great batting beat the mark of Viv Richards, a West Indies player who had been playing for a long time.
Virat Kohli, the star batsman and past captain of Team India, scored 76 runs in 182 balls in the first Test against the West Indies in Dominica. This was a great game. Even though he didn’t get his 76th century in his international career, he broke the mark of the great Viv Richards of the West Indies with his great batting.
Can beat the record set by Sehwag
Kohli became the 26th batter in the history of Test cricket to score the most runs. He beat Viv Richards in this case. In Test cricket, Kohli has scored 8555 runs. Viv Richards, on the other hand, got 8540 runs. Now, Kohli is almost ready to beat Sehwag’s mark. In Test cricket, Sehwag got 8586 runs. Once Kohli gets 32 runs, he will beat Sehwag’s mark. Kohli is the sixth batter in Test cricket history to score the most runs.
Sachin Tendulkar is the one whose name is on the record
Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most runs in Tests, with 15,921. So far, no batter has even come close to Tendulkar’s record. In this match, Kohli reached his 29th half-century in Tests. He is the fifth Indian batter to get 50 or more runs in a Test match. Kohli has earned 57 Fifty Plus scores. Sachin Tendulkar is on top in this case because he has a score of 119 Fifty plus.
In the first innings of the match, India scored 421 runs and lost five wickets. Team India is now ahead by a big margin of 271 runs. It will be interesting to see who wins this match.
