By The Numbers: A look at India great Virat Kohli’s test career

Test cricket has lost its biggest star with Virat Kohli s retirement from the longer format The India great contemporary cricket s version of Lionel Messi in soccer put up selected staggering numbers across his test career as the beacon of a unit followed by billion people Here s a flavor of those stats over his -year test career The number of double-hundreds made by Kohli in tests the majority by an India performer and the fourth bulk in test history Six of them came in an extraordinary -month -innings spell from July to December a period in which he was the No batter in the format The number of test centuries made by Kohli only players have more He also had half-centuries Kohli s batting average in tests The number of test appearances made by Kohli He was captain in tests winning of them the greater part for an Indian captain and fourth overall in test cricket Kohli s highest test tally made against South Africa in Pune India in October He finished the innings not out and it was the last of his double centuries The number of test runs made by Kohli which ranks him fourth on the all-time list of India players behind fellow greats Sachin Tendulkar Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar million The number of followers Kohli has on Instagram AP cricket https apnews com hub cricket Source