India Vs England, 4th Test: After Sunil Gavaskar, Virat Kohli becomes the fastest Indian to achieve this milestone
After a couple of morale-crushing defeats in the first two Tests (31 runs at Edgbaston) and (innings defeat at the Lord's), Virat Kohli registered a memorable victory in the third Test in Nottingham by 203 runs which helped them to bounce back in the five-match Test series.
India bowled out England for 246 on the opening day of the fourth Test match at The Ageas Bowl cricket Stadium in Southampton. In five Test match series, this is the first time in Test cricket five different Indian bowlers have scalped 10-plus wickets each in a same Test series.
After Sunil Gavaskar, Virat Kohli becomes the fastest Indian batsman to complete 6,000 runs in Test cricket. Kohli achieve this milestone in his 119 innings(70 Tests) while Sunil Gavaskar achieve this milestone in 117 innings (65 Tests), Virender Sehwag in 123 innings (123 Tests), Rahul Dravid in 125 innings (73 Tests) and Sachin Tendullkar in 120 innings (76 Tests).
The India captain is the second fastest from his country to the milestone behind Sunil Gavaskar! #ENGvIND #howzstat pic.twitter.com/Fzc9ZoUBHi
— ICC (@ICC) August 31, 2018
Another day, another milestone for captain @imVkohli. 6K and counting in Tests 😎😎👏 #TeamIndia #ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/fX3g22ZEXM
— BCCI (@BCCI) August 31, 2018
With India trailing by 227 runs, Indian opening batsman K L Rahul scored 11 runs and Shikhar Dhawan scored 3 runs on the crease at stumps. Earlier, Indian pacers were right on the mark from the start as they took wickets at regular intervals. Jasprit Bumrah (2/21), Ishant Sharma (1/7), Hardik Pandya (1/16) and Mohammed Shami (51/2) help India to bind up England batting line up in the opening Test.
Indian Squad:
Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli(c), Ajinkya Rahane, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah
England Squad:
Joe Root (c), Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Oliver Pope, Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, Sam Curran, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Chris Woakes, Ben Stokes, James Vince.
First published: 31 August 2018, 17:09 IST