‘Run-Machine’ Virat Kohli- World’s 4th Fastest to Score 26 Test Centuries!

Team India captain Virat Kohli reached another milestone in his career!

Kohli completed his 26^th test century in the ongoing test series with South Africa in Pune on October 11, 2019.

With this century, Kohli became the fourth fastest player to make 26^th century (in 138 innings), next to Don Bradman (69), Steve Smith (121) and Sachin Tendulkar (136).

This was also Kohli’s 19^th century ‘as a team captain’, which positions him along Ricky Ponting in the world ranking, while Graeme Smith of South Africa tops the table with 25 centuries.

Besides, Kohli (with 6878 runs in 81 matches) also went past Dilip Vengsarkar’s record (6868 runs in 116 matches) to become seventh highest run-getter for India in test matches.

Playing this match, Kohli also set a record as the second Indian captain to have lead the team in 50 test matches. It was Dhoni who made this record before by leading the team 60 times during 2008-2014, followed by Sourav Ganguly who led for 49 times.

Most Test Runs From Indian Players
Players	Mat	Runs
Sachin Tendulkar	200	15921
Rahul Dravid	163	13265
Sunil Gavaskar	135	10122
Vvs Laxman	134	8781
Virender Sehwag	113	8503
Virat Kohli	81	6878
Db Vengsarkar	116	6868
Mohammad Asaduddin/td>	99	6215
Gr Viswanath	91	6080

Kohli is also on record as the successful Test captain ever with 29 wins under his reign.

Last but important, Kohli’s win-loss ratio is 2.9, the best by any Indian captain and third in the global list next to Australia’s Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting.

Quickest 26th Test Ton in Terms of innings Played
S.No	Players	Inns
1	Sunil Gavaskar (Ind)	144
2	Virat Kohli (Ind)	138
3	Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)	136
4	SPD Smith (Aus)	121
5	DG Bradman (Aus)	69