Indian captain Virat Kohli played an awesome knock of 123 runs against Australia in Perth Test.
Indian captain Virat Kohli scored 123 runs against Australia in the first innings of Perth Test and helped India to post a respectable total of 283 runs in the reply of Australia's 326. Virat Kohli scored 123 runs off 257 balls with 13 fours and 1 six. During this knock, he broke and created a few records and here are the lists of all those records -
1. Fewest innings to 25 Test hundreds -
68 - Don Bradman (Australia)
127 - VIRAT KOHLI (India)
130 - Sachin Tendulkar (India)
138 - Sunil Gavaskar (India)
139 - Mathew Hayden (Australia)
2. Most International hundreds as captain -
41 - Ricky Ponting (376 innings)
34 - VIRAT KOHLI (145 innings)
33 - Graeme Smith (368 innings)
20 - Steven Smith (118 innings)
19 - Michael Clarke (171 innings) / Brian Lara (204 innings)
3. Most Test hundreds by visiting captains in Australia -
4* - VIRAT KOHLI (4 Tests)
4 - Clive Lloyd (16 Tests)
2 - Chris Gayle (3 Tests) / Graeme Smith (10 Tests)
2 - Garry Sobers (5 Tests) / Archie MacLaren (8 Tests)
4. Most hundreds in international cricket -
100 - Sachin Tendulkar (664 matches)
71 - Ricky Ponting (560 matches)
63* - Virat Kohli (356 matches)
63 - Kumar Sangakkara (594 matches)
62 - Jacques Kallis (South Africa)
5. Most Test hundreds against Australia -
12 - Jack Hobbs
11 - Sachin Tendulkar
9 - David Gower / Wally Hammond / Brian Lara / Richie Richardson
8 - Sunil Gavaskar / Herbert Sutcliffe
7 - VIRAT KOHLI / John Edrich / Maurice Leyland
6. 5000 or more Test runs at number 4 position -
13492 - Sachin Tendulkar (275 innings)
9509 - Mahela Jayawardene (195 innings)
9033 - Jacques Kallis (170 innings)
7535 - Brian Lara ( 148 innings)
6925 - Javed Miandad (140 innings)
6662 - Mark Waugh (170 innings)
6490 - Kevin Pietersen (139 innings)
5895 - Ross Taylor (139 innings)
5081 - Gundappa Viswanath (124 innings)
5012 - Virat Kohli (86 innings)
7. Most runs by a Test Captain (in Away Tests in a calendar year) -
1212 - Graeme Smith (2008)
1039 - Virat Kohli (2018)
1018 - Bob Simpson (1964)
895 - Gary Sobbers (1966)
857 - Graeme Smith (2003)