Another Record For Captain Virat Kohli

NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli on Friday outperformed Mahendra Singh Dhoni to wind up noticeably the India commander with most keeps running in Test cricket. Amid India's second innings of the third Test against South Africa at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, Kohli scored an abrasive 41 and took his count of keeps running as skipper to 3456.

Dhoni as a commander scored 3454 keeps running for India in 60 Test matches while his successor Kohli took only 35 Tests to better the record. Dhoni was over the rundown subsequent to overwhelming the incredible India opener Sunil Gavaskar, who scored 3449 keeps running in 47 Tests as commander.

Mohd Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly are in the fourth and fifth place in the rundown. As commander, Azharuddin scored 2856 keeps running from 47 Test matches, while Ganguly drove India in 49 coordinates and scored 2561 keeps running amid the spell.

Kohli has an incredible keep running as captain of the Indian Test group up until now, winning 20 off the 34 coordinates before the continuous Wanderers Test.

Prior in the main Test of the arrangement at Cape Town, Wriddhiman Saha broke the record of the most rejections in a Test by an Indian wicketkeeper. With ten gets in the match, Saha went past the record of nine expulsions set by Dhoni against Australia in Melbourne in December 2014.