Virat Kohli became the fourth fastest Indian to reach 5000 runs in Test cricket as he reach 25 runs in the Delhi against Sri Lanka.
It looks like everytime Virat Kohli walks down to bat, he sets a new record. On Saturday, at his home ground at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi, Virat Kohli reached another landmark in his career.
The Indian captain completed 5000 runs in Test cricket on Day 1 of the Delhi Test match in his 105th innings. He also scored his 16000th international run during the innings making himself the fastest to reach the milestone. He did it in 360 innings ahead of Hashim Amla's 363.
Kohli is the 11th Indian batsman to complete 5000 runs in Test cricket and the fourth quickest among Indians to achieve the feat. He is the joint 14th-quickest to reach the landmark.
Sunil Gavaskar is the quickest Indian to score 5000 runs as he did it in 95 innings followed by Virender Sehwag (99) and Sachin Tendulkar (103).
Before the start of the third Test, Kohli needed just 25 runs to achieve the feat and he got there with a splendid cover drive off Suranga Lakmal which went for a boundary.
Kohli is in the middle of a phenomenal run ever since he took over the Test captaincy from MS Dhoni in early 2015.
The 2016-17 home season saw Kohli scoring 1503 runs in 17 Tests at an average of 70.75 with eight centuries and a record four double hundreds in consecutive series.
He started with a 200 against West Indies and then scored 211 against New Zealand back in October last year to surpass Gavaskar and hold the record for the most double centuries by an Indian captain.
But that was just the start of his dominance at home as he continued his form against England with a classy 235 and then took Bangladesh bowlers to the cleaners for a relatively quick-fire 204.
Kohli has continued his record-breaking run this year as well. He is also the first captain to smash 10 international hundreds in a calendar year which includes four Test hundreds and six one-day international tons. The 29-year-old also has nine fifties across formats this year.
In Nagpur, Kohli also slammed his fifth double hundred in the previous match against Sri Lanka in Nagpur to equal Brian Lara's record of five double tons by a captain in Test cricket. He joined former South Africa captain Graeme Smith and Rahul Dravid in 12th spot in the list of most double hundreds by batsmen.
The list is headed by the legendary Don Bradman (12), followed by Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara (11) and Lara (9).
Also this year, the 29-year-old Kohli became the eighth batsman to score 50 international hundreds and if India manage to beat Sri Lanka in this match then Kohli will equal Ricky Ponting's record of 9 successive series wins as captain.
Sri Lanka had held on for a draw in the rain-curtailed first Test at Kolkata before going down by an innings and 239 runs in the second match at Nagpur to hand India a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
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