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BGT 2023: Virat Kohli has set a new record in the Ahmedabad Test match, the fourth Test series being played for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023. Virat has made this new record not in batting but during fliding. Virat Kohli has now become the second Indian player to catch more than 300 catches in international cricket. This great batsman of India has achieved this feat by catching the catch of Nathan Lyon off Ravichandran Ashwin on the second day of the Ahmedabad Test match. Virat Kohli has taken a total of 300 catches in his career so far.
Virat Kohli is behind Rahul Dravid
Apart from Virat in international cricket, only one Indian player was able to do such a feat. Rahul Dravid, the current head coach of the Indian cricket team, has also taken more than 300 catches in his career. Rahul Dravid has taken 334 catches in his career and now Virat Kohli has come behind him, who has taken 300 catches so far. The name of former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin comes at number three in this list. He has taken a total of 261 catches in his 16 years long international career.
Apart from this, in Test format only, Virat has left behind Sunil Gavaskar’s record of 108 catches. At the same time, Rahul Dravid is still far ahead of Virat. Rahul has caught 210 catches in his Test career. However, talking about the Ahmedabad Test match, Australia has scored 480 runs in its first innings.
Two Australian players scored a century
For Australia, Usman Khawaja scored the highest innings of 180 runs, while young Cameron Green also scored his first century by playing an innings of 114 runs. In response to this score, the Indian team has scored 36 runs without losing any wicket till the end of the second day’s play. So far in this Indian innings, captain Rohit Sharma has played 17 unbeaten innings and Shubman Gill has played 18 unbeaten innings.
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