7. One of only 3 other captains to declare the innings after scoring 250

Virat Kohli has always been a team player and the entire focus is to take his team to a winning position. Individual milestones are never his priority and he never judges a game by only seeing his numbers. The Indian captain scored his highest Test score against South Africa in Pune in 2019.

The crowd was anticipating him to score his first triple century as he had a lot of time in the Test match. Virat surprised everyone as he declared the innings when he was batting on 254*. He joined an elite list of captains, who declared the innings after reaching 250. Others being Peter May, Stephen Fleming and Micheal Clarke.

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Kohli was on the verge of becoming India’s first captain to score the big 300 but choose against it and decided to put the team first.