Pune: Indian skipper Virat Kohli on Friday smashed his seventh double century and in the process became first-ever India to do so. Kohli achieved this feat during the second Test match between India and South Africa at the Maharastra Cricket Association stadium.
The 30-year-old, who is leading his side in the 50th Test match, also joined New Zealand's Stephen Fleming, England's Alastair Cook and Australia's Steve Waugh to become only the fourth captain to score a century in his 50th match as captain.
Kohli now also has most runs as Indian captain. He went past former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar.
He registered his 26th Test century on Friday and as a result, became the first Indian to score 40 hundreds as skipper.
Ricky Ponting has the most international hundreds as a skipper. He had 41 centuries as the captain for Australia in international cricket.
With this knock, the 30-year-old also went past former cricketer Dilip Vengasarkar in the run-scoring charts. Vengasarkar had 6,868 runs to his credit.
Kohli is now at the 53rd position in the all-time list of leading run-scorers in Test cricket.
Here are the lists of records Virat Kohli broke on Friday:
Most 200s in Test cricket
12 Don Bradman
11 Kumar Sangakkara
9 Brian Lara
7 Wally Hammond/ Mahela Jayawardene/ Virat Kohli *
Virat Kohli's double hundreds