India captain Virat Kohli has been in top form when it comes to One-day-International cricket. After hitting five fifties in the recently concluded World Cup, the premium India batsman played a fighting knock to score a ton against the West Indies in the second ODI of the three-match series; finally ending his century drought. The flamboyant batsman needs six more ODI centuries to surpass batting legend Sachin Tendulkar's record of 49 ODI hundreds. After emerging victorious in both T20 and ODI series against Windies, the number 1 Test side, under Virat's captaincy is willing to wrap up the tour with another series win, this time in the longest format of the game.
Virat Kohli is just one hundred away from equalling Australia legendary batsman Ricky Ponting's record of 19 centuries as a skipper. Former South Africa skipper Graeme Smith, who smashed 25 tons in 109 Tests, tops the list. Amazingly, 17 of Smith's hundreds came overseas. Recently, Virat became the leading run-scorer in a decade in international cricket, surpassing Ricky Ponting (18,962 runs in 2000s).
The Indian skipper completed 11 years in international cricket on Monday . The organizing committee of DDCA decided to name a Ferozshah Kotla stand in Delhi as the ‘Virat Kohli Stand’ to honour the Delhi cricketer.
India will start their World test championship campaign from August 22 at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua, where the first Test of the two-match Test series will be played. The second and the final Test match will be played at historic Sabina Park in Jamaica from August 30.
With 68 hundreds in international cricket, the 30-year-old is just 32 behind Tendulkar's all-time record of 100 hundreds. He recently became the first batsman to score 20,000 runs in a decade.