Virat Kohli's 100th Test important for India's future: Focus also on Shreyas Iyer, Shubman Gill and Vihari
India Today
Virat Kohli will become the 12th Indian to play the 100th Test match as the new-age Indian team under Rohit Sharma plots the demolition of an out-of-depth Sri Lanka in the series-opener starting in Mohali on Friday.
Virat Kohli is set to be the 12th Indian to play 100 Test matches. Of the 11 men before him who achieved this major landmark in their careers, none had the ability to polarize opinions the way Kohli has done in a scintillating cricketing journey that started back in 2008.
Virat Kohli had started off as a precocious kid and few ever doubted the great he would one day go on to become.
Kohli's journey since 2011
By the time Virat Kohli played his first Test, he had already started making a name for himself. Could he hold his own the longest format? As it turned out, he could.
In 2011, India were a good Test side at home but they were whipping boys overseas. England, Australia, South Africa overwhelmed and dominated India ruthlessly. India's batsmen were incapable of handling the hostility of the opposition's pacers and their own pacers were not up to the mark - simply put, they were not good enough.
Virat Kohli endured a lot of rough patch in the early years of his career in the Indian Test team. In 2014, after India lost momentum and another Test series in England, Kohli felt the heat. He had performed miserably with the bat and there was then the impending tour of Australia.
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