Virat Kohli’s prolific career has many records and here one more feather that he has been added to the same. Now, the Indian cricket captain has now equalled Sourav Ganguly’s record for leading the Men in Blue in 49 Test matches. Ganguly had also led India in the same number of matches. As India, takes on the field on Day 1 of the Test match between India and South Africa at the VDCA Cricket Stadium in Vishakhapatnam, Kohli equals Bengal Tiger’s record. India Vs South Africa, Live Cricket Score 1st Test Match. 

MS Dhoni still leads the list leading the Men in Blue for 60 matches. Kohli is all set to get multiple records under his kitty as he is just 281 runs away from reaching the milestone of 21,000 international runs. As of now, the Indian cricket captain has 20,719 runs in his international career so far and in the three Tests against South Africa, he has a great opportunity to surpass 21K runs. Kohli will also be joining an elite list of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag. All these former cricketers have scored more than 1000 runs against South Africa in Tests and Kohli, who has hit 758 runs against Proteas in Tests, are 242 runs behind to join the elite list.

Talking about the current Test match, India has won the toss and elected to bat first. As of now, we have Rohit Sharma and Mayank Agarwal batting on the score of 4 and 5 respectively. The Indian team stands on the score of nine runs without a loss of any wicket.

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