Virat Kohli eyeing major career milestones on West Indies tour

Team India’s one month lengthy break from worldwide cricket is about to finish. They shall be dealing with West Indies away from dwelling in two Tests, three ODIs and 5 T20Is. The tour is about to start with the Test sequence ranging from July 12. It will even be India’s first sequence within the new World Test Championship (WTC) cycle at the same time as all eyes shall be on the three-match ODI sequence with the World Cup solely three months away.

Meanwhile, former India captain Virat Kohli shall be eyeing a few major milestones on the Caribbean tour. He has to this point scored 25385 runs in worldwide cricket and is on the sixth place on this side. Jacques Kallis is forward of him on the fifth place with 25534 runs in his worldwide career after that includes in an enormous 519 matches.

Kohli is simply 150 runs away from surpassing Kallis and make it to high 5 listing of most runs scored in worldwide cricket historical past. Kohli will get a complete of seven innings on West Indies tour to attain these 150 runs. However, he shall be anticipated to realize this milestone within the Test sequence itself provided that India are anticipated to dominate within the two-match Test sequence.

Apart from this, the second Test ranging from July 20 on the Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad shall be particular for Virat Kohli as it is going to be five hundredth International match of his career. He has to this point performed 498 matches in his career and can stage up with Inzamam-ul-Haq within the first Test who performed 499 matches in his illustrious career. Kohli will change into solely the tenth participant in historical past to play 500 worldwide matches. He will even be solely the fourth Indian participant and the primary after Rahul Dravid to succeed in the mentioned milestone.

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