India vs Bangladesh 2024: Virat Kohli set to become 1st player in 147 years to achieve THIS feat

Former India captain Virat Kohli will be returning to Test cricket arena when Rohit Sharma’s side take on Bangladesh within the first Test starting place on the M. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai from September 19. Kohli will look to continue his quest to attain 9,000 runs in Test cricket and sustain with the ‘Fab Four’ which incorporates Joe Root, Steve Smith and Kane Williamson in preference to the Indian batter.

Alternatively, there's a bigger achievement which awaits Kohli within both-match Test series against Bangladesh. Kohli can change into the first cricketer in 147 years to do so rare feat which even the comprehensive Sachin Tendulkar didn't accomplish.

The previous India captain needs simplest fifty eight runs to complete 27,000 runs in international – in Tests, ODIs and T20Is. Tendulkar is the fastest to arrive this landmark in 623 innings – 226 Test innings, 396 ODI innings and 1 T20I innings. But Kohli has simplest played 591 innings till date and he can change into some of essentially the most straightforward batter within the last 147 years to attain 27,000 runs in lower than 600 innings.

On 23rd December 2019 Virat Kohli scored his 70th century in a test match against Bangladesh. It was once now not just any regular century. Kohli was once the first and some of essentially the most straightforward Indian to attain a pink ball test century in INTL cricket. %twitter.com/EVFZTpxBPC

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Kohli has turned out in 591 innings across formats to building up 26,942 runs. The Indian batter has eight innings by which he can score fifty eight runs. Rather then Tendulkar, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting and former Sri Lanka wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara also have scored 27,000 runs in international cricket.

Kohli also needs 152 runs to attain 9,000 runs in Test cricket. If Kohli reaches this mark within the four innings vs Bangladesh, he also can surpass former England opener Graham Gooch’s total of eight,900 Test runs.

Rather then this, Kohli also can look to maneuver past Sir Donald Bradman on some of essentially the most Test centuries chart. Both Kohli and Bradman have 29 Test centuries currently. With his thirtieth Test ton, the Indian batter will equal the record of former Australia opener Matthew Hayden and former West Indies batter Shivnarine Chanderpaul.