Interesting Stats on Virat Kohli's double hundred 1
Virat Kohli

India’s Test captain Virat Kohli played brilliantly against West Indies in the 1st Test of 4-match Test series at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium (North Sound, Antigua). He completed double-century before getting out. Kohli played a solid 200 runs innings in the 1st innings of the match.

Now let’s check out some interesting stats which were made by Virat Kohli’s double hundred.

  1. Virat Kohli became the first Indian captain to score a double century in Test at outside India. The previous highest score in an innings by an Indian Test captain at outside India was 192 by Mohammad Azharuddin against New Zealand in Auckland.
  1. Virat Kohli became only the third visiting Test captain to score a double-century in West Indies. The other two visitors were: former England captain Sir Leonard Hutton (205 at Kingston in 1954) and former Australian captain Bob Simpson (201 at Bridgetown in 1965).

After more than 50 years long (51 years), a visiting team’s captain hit a double-century on the Caribbean soil.

  1. Virat Kohli became 5th Indian captain to score a double century in Test cricket history. Other 4 Indian captains are Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi (203* against England at Delhi in 1964), Sunil Gavaskar (205 against West Indies at Mumbai in 1978), Sachin Tendulkar (217 against New Zealand at Ahmedabad in 1999) and MS Dhoni (224 against Australia at Chennai in 2013).
  1. Also, Virat Kohli became 26th visiting captain to score a double century in Test.
  1. Virat Kohli became 5th Indian batsman to score a double-century in West Indies.

Also, it was India’s 17th Test double century outside India.

  1. Last time a visiting captain hit a Test double-century outside Asia was in April 2006. During that time, New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming had scored 262 runs against South Africa at Cape Town.
  1. Apart from former Sri Lankan captain Marvan Atapattu’s Test double-century (249) against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in 2004, Virat Kohli is the only Asian captain to score a double-century in Test at outside Asia.

Kohli became 4th Asian captain to hit double-century in Test cricket away from home.