India vs Sri Lanka 2017, 1st Test Day 5 Stats: Virat Kohli completes 50 international tons

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Kohli is now halfway towards reaching Tendulkar's tally of 100 international centuries

Fresh life was infused in the first Test between India and Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens, when Virat Kohli, in trailblazing fashion, completed his 50th international hundred, helping India post a competitive target of 231 for the tourists before tea on the fifth day. In the process of scoring his 18th Test hundred, Kohli broke a number of records. Here are all the numbers from the fifth day:

1 - Virat Kohli is the first Indian cap to score a century and a duck in the same Test. He is also the 18th batsman overall.

2 - Virat Kohli stands second on the list of most fifty-plus scores in a calendar year by an Indian captain.

Here are the top-3:

19 - Rahul Dravid (2006)

18* - Virat Kohli (2017)

17 - Sourav Ganguly (2002)

4 - Kohli became the fourth captain to score nine international centuries in a calendar year.

The others are:

Ricky Ponting (2005)

Graeme Smith (2005)

Ricky Ponting (2006) 

7- Kohli became the seventh batsman to score 50 or more international hundreds in a career.

100 - Sachin Tendulkar

71 - Ricky Ponting

63 - Kumar Sangakkara

62 - Jacques Kallis

54 - Mahela Jayawardene and Hashim Amla

53 - Brian Lara

50*- Virat Kohli

9 - KL Rahul has nine fifties this year, without a century. Here are the others who have the most number of 50s without a 100 in a calendar year:

11 - Allan Border (1989)

9 - Chetan Chauhan (1979)

9 - KL Rahul (2017) *

8 - SS Das (2001)

8 - Alastair Cook (2008)

11 - Most Test hundreds by an Indian captain. 

Here are the others:

11 - Sunil Gavaskar (74)

9 - Mohammed Azharuddin (68)

7 - Sachin Tendulkar (43)

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