Team India’s brilliant batsman Virat Kohli created history on Thursday 20,2023 becoming the first batter to score fifty in his 500th international match. India was invited to bat by the West Indies in the second test in Trinidad. Virat Kohli scored 87 runs in 161 balls ending the first day notout. Opening batsmen Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal give a brilliant start for the first wicket partnership. Rohit Sharma made 80 runs in 143 balls other side Yashasvi Jaiswal made 57 runs in 74 balls. In the second session, India lost their way. Gill and Rahane were let go cheaply. After this, Kohli and Jadeja made an unbroken fifth-wicket partnership of 106 runs to bring India back on track. During the inning, Virat Kohli broke Virender Sehwag’s record and came up to number 5 among Indian batsmen as the top run scorer in the test cricket match.
Virat Kohli is now in the 24th position and has scored the most runs in Test Cricket. Only Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavaskar, and VVS Laxman are top in the list.
Will Kohli be able to break the drought of a century on foreign soil?
Kohli hit eight fours in his innings in Trinidad on Thursday 20, and now need 13 runs to complete his century. If Virat Kohli does on the second day of the test match, it will be his first test match century away from home since December 2018.
