Indian team’s star batsman Virat Kohli will play his 500th match, entry in special club

Virat Kohli, the star batsman of the Indian team, will achieve a special record as soon as he steps on the field in the second Test match against the West Indies. Virat Kohli, considered India’s run machine, will play his 500th international match on 20 July. Virat Kohli is the fourth batsman from India to achieve the feat of playing 500 matches.

 

Virat Kohli is at the sixth position in the list of scoring the most runs. Virat is only behind Sachin Tendulkar in terms of scoring international centuries. Significantly, the second match of the Test series against the West Indies is to be played at the Queens Park Oval in Port of Spain. The first match of this series was won by the Indian team by a series and 141 runs. And in the second match of the series, Virat Kohli will achieve a special feat.

 

Please tell that Virat Kohli has played 110 Test matches, 274 ODIs and 114 T20 matches so far. The names of players who played 500 matches before Virat Kohli include Sachin Tendulkar (664 matches), former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (538 matches) and Rahul Dravid (509 matches). Virat will become the 10th batsman in the world to play his 500th match.

 

Virat Kohli, who could not score a century abroad since December 2018, would like to make up for that gap, while Ishaan Kishan, who waited for 20 balls to score his first run in Test debut, will also be waiting for his chance. Barring debutant for the West Indies, none of the batsmen could face the Indian spinners. He needs a pitch conducive to fast bowlers so that Kemar Roach and Alzarri Joseph can do wonders.

 

Ravichandran Ashwin can also do wonders in this match. Ashwin took 12 wickets in the last Test match. Ashwin is one of the few spinners to have achieved the feat of taking 10 or more wickets eight times. Even in this match, if Ashwin is successful in taking 10 wickets, then he will leave behind Anil Kumble. Ashwin will again equal Richard Hadlee and Rangana Herath, who have achieved this feat nine times.

 

India: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Virat Kohli, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ajinkya Rahane, KS Bharat, Ishan Kishan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Akshar Patel, Mohammad Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, Navdeep Saini.

 

West Indies: Kraigg Brathwaite (c), Jermaine Blockwood, Joshua DaSilva, Alick Athanaj, Rahkeem Cornwell, Shannon Gabriel, Jason Holder, Alzarri Joseph, Raymon Reifer, Kemar Roach, T Chanderpaul, Kirk McKenzie, Jomel Warrican. Match time: 7 pm. From 30