Virat Kohli breaks records, sets new benchmarks with another double-century

Virat Kohli brought up yet another double ton as India continued to dominate Sri Lanka on the second day of the third Test match in Delhi.

Kohli, who was unbeaten on 156 at stumps on Day 1, started the day with caution but soon settled in, hitting the bowlers around the park. Once settled in, Kohli eased into his game and brought up his second double ton of the series in the 108th over. Kohli pulled Suranga Lakmal and ran two to bring up his sixth double century in whites. All of his double-centuries have come in the last 17 months. 

# Kohli has become the only captain to score six double hundreds. He had equalled Brian Lara with his previous double century in Nagpur.

# Kohli overtook Rahul Dravid, who has five double hundreds, and now equals Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar for most double tons for India in Test cricket.

# Kohli is the fourth batsman to hit successive double hundreds and second Indian to do so.

# Kohli also went past 5000 Test runs and became the fourth-quickest Indian to achieve the feat in his 105th innings.

# Kohli has also achieved 16000 international runs, the fastest to do that. 

# He also scored 3000 Test runs as captain - the third Indian skipper after MS Dhoni and Gavaskar to achieve the feat.

# On Saturday, Kohli surpassed Sachin Tendulkar (107) to become the second fastest Indian batsman to score 20 hundreds in Test cricket. Sunil Gavaskar heads the list having reached the milestone in just 93 innings while Kohli got there in his 105th innings.

# He also became the quickest to complete 52 international centuries across formats, achieving the feat in his 350th innings to beat South African Hashim Amla's record of 378 innings.