Kohli 1st captain to score hat-trick of tons in 3-match series
Agency
NEW DELHI: Indian cricket’s current ‘Milestone Man’ Virat Kohli today became the first international captain to hit three successive hundreds in a three-Test series.
Kohli also completed his individual 5000 runs in the longest version of the game.
Kohli now has 11 international hundreds in a season — one less than Sachin Tendulkar’s 12.
The Indian captain scored 104 not out in Kolkata followed by 213 in Nagpur before completing his hat-trick with his 20th Test hundred in his 63rd game here.
The 5000 runs came in 105th innings, which is the fourth fastest among the Indian batsmen after Sunil Gavaskar (95 innings), Virender Sehwag (98 innings) and Sachin Tendulkar (103 innings).