Virat Kohli becomes 11th Indian batsman to score 5000 Test runs, also breaks Hashim Amla, David Warner’s record

In the third and the last Test of the series, Kohli has entered the club of Indian batsman to score 5000 and runs for India in tests. Kohli reached this feat after batting in 105 innings.

By: Aakash Biswas |
December 2, 2017 1:22 pm

Virat Kohli has become the 25th Indian batsman to score 5,000 runs in Test cricket. After the magnificent double hundred he scored in Nagpur against Sri Lanka, he was 25 runs away to reach this feat. In the third and the last Test of the series, Kohli has entered the club of Indian batsman to score 5000 and runs for India in tests. Kohli reached this feat after batting in 105 innings.

Here’s the list of Indian batsmen who have reached this feat in Test cricket:

Player	Matches	Runs	Best
Sachin Tendulkar	200	15,921	248*
Rahul Dravid	163	13,288	270
Sunil Gavaskar	125	10,122	236*
VVS Laxman	134	8,781	281
Virender Sehwag	103	8,586	319
Sourav Ganguly	113	7,212	239
Dilip Vengsarkar	116	6,868	166
M Azharuddin	99	6,215	199
G Viswanath	91	6,080	222
Kapil Dev	131	5,248	163
Virat Kohli	63	5,000*	235

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Also, he has become the quickest batsman to get 5000 runs breaking the records of Hashim Amla, David Warner and Alastair Cook.

Players	Country	Matches	Innings played to score 5000
Virat Kohli	India	63	105
David Warner	Australia	59	109
Hashim Amla	South Africa	63	109
Kane Williamson	New Zealand	61	110
Alastair Cook	England	65	115

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Earlier this day, India won the toss and elected to bat first and had a good start. The batting duo of Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay added a total of 42 runs for the first wicket before Dhawan was removed by Dilruwan Perera. Dhawan ended up scoring 23 runs off 35 balls. The next man in was Cheteshwar Pujara who had hit a century in Nagpur. However, he couldn’t repeat the performance in Delhi and lost his wicket to Lahiru Gamage on 23.

Murali Vijay kept on scoring runs and got the 16th Test fifty of his career. He was joined by the Indian skipper before the lunch.