India cricket captain Virat Kohli on Sunday became the first batsman to score six double centuries while leading an international side. In doing so, Kohli overtook West Indian great Brian Lara in achieving this feat.

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Incidentally, all of Kohli’s double tons have come only after he took over as Test skipper, with the first coming when India had a successful tour of the Caribbean last year.

Twitter was full of praise for the Indian skipper and here are some of the reactions 

Earlier, Kohli and in-form Murali Vijay smashed big centuries in a massive 283-run stand to deflate Sri Lanka on the opening day on Saturday.

At the time of writing this article, Kohli was on 225, while Rohit Sharma had scored 55