Virat kohli was the only captain to score a century in both innings of the first Test. It was the same day 7 years ago that he scored a century in the second inning.
Exactly 7 years from today, on the same day, the new captain of the indian Test team, kohli, scored a century in both the innings of the first Test in which he took over as captain.
After dhoni announced his resignation as the Test captain of the indian team, kohli took over as the Test captain of the indian team.
He faced the Australian series for the first time since taking over as captain for the first time in 2014. australia was bowled out for 517 in their first innings at the world-famous adelaide Stadium. Most of the indian players, including virat kohli, were in the indian team as youngsters.
In the indian team that started the first innings, shikhar dhawan was out for low runs and murali vijay, Pujara, and Rahane were in charge and audi scored fifty.
Australia declared their second innings at 290 and set a target of 364 for India. murali vijay showed the game to the Australian bowlers who thought they could easily roll the indian team.
Shikhar dhawan and Pujara formed an anchor-like partnership with captain kohli Vijay to leave successively.
However, the fact that the 26-year-old kohli played both innings on that day left the Australian bowlers in awe. The Australian media wrote articles praising him. Despite losing the first two Tests, india drew the last two Tests of the series. It is noteworthy that kohli scored 692 runs in this series alone.
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