Virat Kohli to complete his 500th international match in the second Test Match against West Indies

Virat Kohli to Make History with 500th International Match

Virat Kohli is going to create history soon by completing his 500th International match. The 2nd Test Match will take place at the Port of Spain in Trinidad. The match will be on 20 July Thursday. The Indian team won the first match of the two-match Test series against the West Indies by an innings and 141 runs in three days which starts from 12 July to 15 July, 2023. Kohli will become the tenth player in history and the fourth Indian to accomplish this achievement. He will now soon join Sachin Tendulkar and MS Dhoni on the elite list.

After The first test Match against West Indies, the team has taken a 1-0 lead. In this match, once again everyone’s eyes will be on Team India’s star batsman Virat Kohli. Kohli will create history as soon as he enters this match. In the Dominica Test, Virat scored an inning of 76 runs and became the fifth highest run scorer in Test cricket for Team India. He had left Virender Sehwag behind. Now once again in the second Test match, he is standing on the threshold of creating history.

Kohli’s Impending Milestone

He is a former Captain of Indian Cricket team. Virat Kohli is a highly regarded right handed batsman. He presently plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League and Delhi in domestic cricket.

Kohli is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time of Indian Cricket Team having set records in T20 internationals and the Indian Premier League. In 2020, the International Cricket Council named him male cricketer of the decade. Kohli was instrumental in India’s successes, which included the 2011 World Cup and the 2013 Champions Trophy.

Kohli’s Journey and Debut

Kohli began his cricket career at the West Delhi Cricket Academy in New Delhi where he was born and raised. He made his international debut in 2008 and soon rose through the ranks of the ODI squad. He made his Test debut in 2011 and topped the ICC ODI batters rankings in 2013. Kohli scored the most runs in the 2014 T20 World Cup. He became the world’s top ranked Test batsman in the year of 2018 and also becoming the only Indian cricketer to achieve it in all three formats.

Kohli became the first player in history to score 20,000 international runs in a single decade in 2019. He stepped down as captain of the Indian national team for T20Is and Tests in 2021 and early 2022, respectively.

Virat has the most double century ever scored by an Indian hitter, with seven. Don Bradman, an Australian cricket star, has scored the most double tonnes that is 12 times.
Virat Kohli has make an impressive record of over 25,000 runs and 75 centuries in international cricket. Throughout his career spanning 499 matches, he has scored 25,461 runs in 558 innings at an average of 53.48. Kohli has recorded 75 centuries and 131 fifties, with his highest individual score being 254. With all these achievements he presently ranks as the sixth highest run scorer in the history of the sport and holds the second highest number of centuries.