Team India’s skipper Virat Kohli has peeled off the six runs he needed to overhaul the legendary Sachin Tendulkar and Sir Vivian Richards to be quicker to accumulate 6,000 Test runs.
After his second century of the series put India in command of the third Test against England at Trent Bridge, Kohli was out for 103, leaving him with a career aggregate of 5,994 Test runs at 54.49 from 118 innings.
He was off the mark with a classical cover drive on the second morning of the fourth Test against England at Southampton’s Rose Bowl. He reached the mark with a four edged wide of the slips cordon and down to the third-man boundary.
The overall mark for the fastest man to 6,000 belongs to Sir Donald Bradman, who reached the Test runs mileston in a preposterous 68 innings. Earlier this year, then Australia captain Steve Smith levelled Sir Garfield Sobers in second place on the list (111 innings).
