Before Virat Kohli, these Indian cricketers have played 100 or more Tests for the country

New Delhi, Online Desk. Virat Kohli 100th test match, Ind vs SL 1st test match: Former Indian cricket team captain and middle-order batsman Virat Kohli is going to play the 100th Test match of his Test career against Sri Lanka in Mohali. Before Virat Kohli, 11 players have done an amazing job of playing 100 or more Test matches for India. Virat Kohli is going to become the 12th player to play 100th Test match for India.

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Virat Kohli to become 12th player to play 100 Tests

Before Virat Kohli, 11 Indian players have done wonders of playing 100 Test matches and Sunil Gavaskar was the first batsman to play 100 Tests for India. At the same time, Sachin Tendulkar is at number one in terms of playing the most Test matches for India, in whose name he has a record of playing 200 Test matches. Sachin is also the player to play the most Test matches in the world. At the same time, in terms of playing the most Test matches for India, Rahul Dravid is present at number two with 163 Tests, while VVS Laxman is present at number three with 134 Tests. At the same time, Virat Kohli is going to become the 12th player to play 100th Test match for India.

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Batsmen who played 100 or more Test matches for India-

Sachin Tendulkar – 200 matches

Rahul Dravid – 163 matches

VVS Laxman – 134 matches

Anil Kumble – 132 matches

Kapil Dev – 131 matches

Sunil Gavaskar – 125 matches

Dilip Vengsarkar – 116 matches

Sourav Ganguly – 113 matches

Ishant Sharma – 105 matches

Harbhajan Singh – 103 matches

Virender Sehwag – 103 matches

Test career of Virat Kohli

Talking about the Test career of Virat, he has scored 7962 runs in 99 Test matches played so far at an average of 50.39 and in this he has scored 27 centuries and 28 half-centuries. Virat Kohli’s best score in Test cricket is 254 not out.