Virat Kohli Targets the 9,000 Test Runs Club, Poised to Become Fourth Indian to Achieve This Feat
Fans of cricket are giddy with anticipation as Virat Kohli gets ready for the forthcoming Test series against Bangladesh. The star Indian batter is on the approach of becoming a member of an exclusive group of Indian cricket icons, needing just 152 runs to reach the coveted 9,000-run milestone in Test cricket.
Star batsman Virat Kohli of India will have certain goals to meet as he gets ready for the first Test match against Bangladesh in Chennai. He wants to surpass the recent success of teammates Joe Root, Steve Smith, and Kane Williamson in the longest format. On September 19, at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium, India and Bangladesh will begin their two-match series. In the meantime, Kanpur will host the second long-format match on September 27. Head coach Gautam Gambhir will be motivated to win a series in his debut Test assignment.
Virat has had some success in his brief but steady ICC World Test Championship 2023–25 run, missing the home series against England earlier this year owing to the birth of his second kid. He has scored 369 runs in four matches and six innings at an average of 61.50, with a century and two fifties. His highest rating is 121.
Virat is only 152 runs short of reaching the 9,000 run milestone in Test cricket, therefore he will be aiming to reach it. He will join Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid, and Sachin Tendulkar as the fourth Indian to reach the milestone. He has amassed 8,848 runs at an average of 49.15 in 191 innings across 113 Test matches, including 29 hundreds and 30 fifties. His highest rating is 254. With 15,921 runs in 200 matches, Sachin Tendulkar is India’s all-time leading scorer in Test cricket.
With 26,942 runs in 533 games and 591 innings at an average of 53.35, the seasoned batsman is also the fourth-highest run scorer in the annals of international cricket. He has scored 80 hundreds and 140 fifties. He needs to score 58 more runs to reach 27,000 international runs.
To overcome a really bad run of form this year, Virat will also need to win this series. Virat has amassed just 296 runs at an incredibly low average of 19.73 in 14 games this year, with just one half-century in 15 innings. This year, 76 has been his greatest score.
After this series against Bangladesh, Rohit Sharma’s team will play the much awaited Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Australia commencing on November 22 and then New Zealand’s three-test tour of India beginning on October 16.
India’s squad for the 1st Test against Bangladesh: Rohit Sharma (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (WK), Dhruv Jurel (WK), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah, Yash Dayal.