Milestone-man Virat Kohli had added yet another feather to his already illustrious cap on Sunday (December 3) when he brought up again another double ton in the ongoing third Test against Sri Lanka in Delhi.
Starting the day on 156, Kohli looked at his fluent best right from the word go and began hitting the bowlers all around the park. Once he had his eyes settled in, he did not take long to bring up his sixth double century. He reached the milestone when he pulled a short ball from fast-bowler Suranga Lakmal towards mid-wicket for a double. The stunning knock was studded with 20 fours. The 29-year old now has two double centuries against Sri Lanka and one each vs West Indies, New Zealand, England and Bangladesh.
And as usual, he once again broke a plethora of record with one of them being that he surpassed West Indies great Brian Lara to become the first captain of a team to hit six Test double centuries.
Runs galore for King Kohli as he brings up his 6th double ton in Test cricket #INDvSL pic.twitter.com/IgKXGvMKIM
— BCCI (@BCCI) December 3, 2017
Lara has five double centuries to his name as Test captain while Kohli now has six.
Here is the list of captains with most double centuries in Test:
| Player | Number of double tons |
| V Kohli (INDIA) | 6 |
| BC Lara (WI) | 5 |
| DG Bradman (AUS) | 4 |
| MJ Clarke (AUS) | 4 |
| GC Smith (SA) | 4 |
| GS Chappell (AUS) | 3 |
| SP Fleming (NZ) | 3 |
| DPMD Jayawardene (SL) | 3 |
| BB McCullum (NZ) | 3 |
| RB Simpson (AUS) | 3 |
Kohli has now joined the likes of Marvan Atapattu, Virender Sehwag, Javed Miandad, Younis Khan, Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar – all of who have six double centuries. He is also the first player to record three double centuries each in two different years.
Meanwhile, Kohli had also shattered a few records on the first day of the Test after reaching his 20th Test century. The knock helped him to surpass Sachin Tendulkar (107) to become the second fastest Indian batsman to score 20 hundreds in Test cricket. Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar leads the list, having reached the milestone in just 93 innings while Kohli got there in his 105th innings.
Kohli also became the quickest to score 52 international centuries across formats, achieving the feat in his 350th innings to beat South African Hashim Amla’s record of 378 innings.
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