Virat Kohli breaks Brian Lara’s 11-year-old record as he completes his 6th double ton!

Virat Kohli's double centuries helped India take a substantial lead against Sri Lanka in the third Test at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi

By: Arun Rawal |
December 3, 2017 11:21 am

Tags: Brian Lara, Virat Kohli,

Virat Kohli is undoubtedly on a record-breaking spree in this Test series. With every innings, every century, he seems to be heading towards breaking another record. This time around, Kohli broke Windies batting legend Brian Lara’s captaincy record. Kohli surpassed Lara’s number of double centuries in Test cricket as a captain. The Indian skipper has 6 double centuries as a captain with a double ton against Sri Lanka in the third Test at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi.

Here’s the list of top 5 captains who have played most number of centuries as a captain –

6* Virat Kohli (India)
5 Brian Lara (West Indies)
4 Sir Don Bradman (Australia)
4 Graeme Smith (South Africa)
4 Michael Clarke (Australia)

But, Kohli’s double centuries did not just break one record. Kohli also equalled Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag’s tally of double centuries too. Before the third Test, Kohli equalled Rahul Dravid’s tally of double centuries with his splendid innings at Nagpur. The 29-year-old is just one double ton away from becoming the batsman with most double centuries for India.

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Here’s the list of top five Indian batsmen with most number of centuries –

6* Virat Kohli
6 Virender Sehwag
6 Sachin Tendulkar
5 Rahul Dravid
4 Sunil Gavaskar

Here’s how Kohli celebrated his 6th Test double ton –

Back to back double for King Kohli #INDvSL pic.twitter.com/NDMmtzbs4W

— BCCI (@BCCI) December 3, 2017

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Kohli also equalled Marvan Attapattu, Javed Miandad, Younis Khan, Ricky Ponting’s tally of double centuries. The Delhi batsman is just behind 5 batsmen Wally Hammond (7), Mahela Jayawardene (7), Brian Lara (9), Kumar Sangakkara (11) and Sir Don Bradman (12) in the list of most number of double centuries.