Published: Mar 04, 2022, 02:32 PM (IST)
Edited: Mar 04, 2022, 02:32 PM (IST)
Mohali: Virat Kohli in his historic 100th Test match scripts yet another milestone achievement as the former India skipper breaches the 8000-run mark in Test cricket on Day 1 against Sri Lanka in Mohali.
India opting to bat first lost 2 wickets for 80 runs before Virat Kohli joined in with Hanuma Vihari to script a 50-run partnership for the hosts. Openers Rohit Sharma and Mayank Agarwal scored 29 and 33 respectively.
The RCB man crossed 8000 runs in the longest format of the game and becomes the second player after Ricky Ponting to achieve the same feat in the 100th Test match. Ponting achieved this feat way back in 2006 in his centurion match against South Africa. Kohli is also now the fourth-fastest Indian to achieve it in 169 innings.
.@imVkohli breaches another milestone on his momentous day.
8000 and counting runs in whites for him 👏👏#VK100 @Paytm #INDvSL pic.twitter.com/EDZz9kPZwy
BCCI (@BCCI) March 4, 2022
Innings to 8000 Test runs for India
154 S Tendulkar
157 R Dravid
160 V Sehwag
166 S Gavaskar
169 V Kohli
201 VVS Laxman
Kohli now has a total of 8007 runs in Test cricket with a brilliant batting average of 50.35.
Sri Lanka’s Lasith Embuldeniya got him out off a flighted delivery which landed on the good length spot and Kohli who was hanging back to defend, had the line covered but the ball spins away, beats the outside edge and hits the top of off-stump. The length is what Embuldeniya got right on that occasion. It was neither full nor short and Kohli tried to play it off the backfoot and paid the price. Kohli walked back to the pavilion after scoring 45 off 76 balls.
