Captain Virat Kohli's record-breaking knock of 254* put India in a strong position against South Africa at the end of day two of second Test in Pune. With the help of Kohli's 254*, Mayank Agarwal's 108, Ravindra Jadeja's 91 and Ajinkya Rahane's 59, India declared on 601/5 in their first innings. In reply, South Africa were 36/3 at close of play on day two and have a massive task at hand to stay alive in the series.

List of records created by Virat Kohli during his 254* runs knock -

7 - Virat Kohli became the first Indian batsman to smash seven double hundreds in Test cricket. 

Most double hundreds for India in Tests -

7 - Virat Kohli

6 - Virender Sehwag / Sachin Tendulkar 

5 - Rahul Dravid 

4 - Sunil Gavaskar 

3 - Cheteshwar Pujara 

Most double hundreds in Tests -

12 - Don Bradman

11 - Kumar Sangakkara

9 - Brian Lara

7 - Virat Kohli / Mahela Jayawardene / Wally Hammond 

Virat Kohli's double hundreds in Tests -

200 vs WI at North Sound, 2016

211 vs NZ at Indore, 2016

235 vs ENG at Mumbai, 2016

204 vs BAN at Hyderabad, 2017

213 vs SL at Nagpur, 2017

243 vs SL at Delhi, 2017

254* vs SA at Pune, 2019 

19 - Virat Kohli has scored 19 hundreds as captain and overall 26 hundreds in Test cricket. 

Most Test hundreds as captain -

25 - Graeme Smith

19 - Virat Kohli / Ricky Ponting

15 - Steve Smith / Steve Waugh / Allan Border 

138 - Number of innings taken by Virat Kohli to complete 7000 Test runs - the joint-fourth quickest in the world to reach this milestone. 

Fewest innings to reach 7000 Test runs -

131 - Wally Hammond 

134 - Virender Sehwag 

136 - Sachin Tendulkar 

138 - Virat Kohli / Gary Sobers / Kumar Sangakkara 

139 - Mohammad Yousuf 

254* - Virat Kohli's 254* is also the highest individual score by an Indian captain in Test cricket. He broke his own 2-year-old record. 

Highest Test scores by Indian captain -

254* - Virat Kohli vs SA at Pune, 2019

243 - Virat Kohli vs SL at Delhi, 2017

235 - Virat Kohli vs ENG at Mumbai, 2016

224 - MS Dhoni vs AUS at Chennai, 2013

217 - Sachin Tendulkar vs NZ at Ahmedabad, 1999

1063 - Virat Kohli when on 191, completed 1000 Test runs against South Africa - fourth Indian batsman to achieve this feat. 

Most Test runs for India against South Africa -

1741 - Sachin Tendulkar

1306 - Virender Sehwag 

1252 - Rahul Dravid

1063 - Virat Kohli

976 - VVS Laxman 

7054 - Virat Kohli when on 200, completed 7000 runs in Test cricket - only the seventh Indian batsman to achieve this milestone.

Most Test runs for India -

15921 - Sachin Tendulkar

13265 - Rahul Dravid

10122 - Sunil Gavaskar

8781 - VVS Laxman 

8503 - Virender Sehwag 

7212 - Sourav Ganguly

7054 - Virat Kohli 

Fewest innings to 21000 runs in international cricket -

435 - Virat Kohli

473 - Sachin Tendulkar

485 - Brian Lara

489 - Ricky Ponting

514 - Jacques Kallis