•  Highest scores by  Indian captains in WI

    Highest scores by Indian captains in West Indies

    Batsman

    Score

    Venue

    Season

    Rahul Dravid

    146

    Gros Islet

    2006

    Virat Kohli

    143*

    North Sound

    2016

    Kapil Dev

    100*

    Port-of-Spain

    1982-83

    Kapil Dev

    98

    St.John's

    1982-83

    Sachin Tendulkar

    92

    Bridgetown

    1996-97

    The 143 runs scored by Kohli are the second most by an Indian batsman on the opening day of a Test in the West Indies. Only Virender Sehwag has scored more.

  • Highest scores by Indian batsmen on Day 1 of a Test in WI

    Highest scores by Indian batsmen on first day of a Test in West Indies

    Batsman

    Score

    Venue

    Season

    Virender Sehwag

    180

    Gros Islet

    2006

    Virat Kohli

    143*

    North Sound

    2016

    Sachin Tendulkar

    113

    Port-of-Spain

    2001-02

    Sunil Gavaskar

    102

    Port-of-Spain

    1970-71

    Rahul Dravid

    95

    Gros Islet

    2006

    This was the first time Kohli was captaining India in the West Indies. His innings is the second highest by a visiting captain batting for the first time in the West Indies.

  • Highest maiden innings by visiting captains in WI

    Highest maiden innings by visiting captains in West Indies

    Captain

    Score

    Venue

    Season

    Ricky Ponting (Aus)

    158

    Kingston

    2007-08

    Virat Kohli (Ind)

    143*

    North Sound

    2016

    Mahela Jayawardene (SL)

    136

    Providence

    2007-08

    Stephen Fleming (NZ)

    130

    Bridgetown

    2002

    Bevan Congdon (NZ)

    126

    Bridgetown

    1971-72

    The century was Kohli's fifth as captain -- all five have come outside India! He now shares the Indian record of most centuries outside India as captain along with with Mohammmad Azharuddin. However, Azharuddin took 41 innings to do so as against Kohli, who needed only 12.

  • Most away centuries by Indian captains

    Most AWAY centuries by Indian captains

    Captain

    100s

    Inns

    Virat Kohli

    5*

    12

    Mohammad Azharuddin

    5

    41

    Sachin Tendulkar

    4

    21

    Rahul Dravid

    4

    30

    Sourav Ganguly

    3

    43

    Sunil Gavaskar

    2

    29

    Kapil Dev

    1

    22

    Tiger Pataudi

    1

    25

    During the course of his innings Kohli also completed his 1000 runs as captain. Among the Indians, only Sunil Gavaskar has reached this mark in fewer innings (Mahendra Singh Dhoni also took 18 innings). The details:

  • Fewest innings to 1000 runs as captain for India

    Fewest innings to 1000 runs as captain for India

    Inns

    Sunil Gavaskar

    14

    MS Dhoni

    18

    Virat Kohli

    18

    Mohammad Azharuddin

    24

    Sachin Tendulkar

    24

    Tiger Pataudi

    26

    Rahul Dravid

    26

    Sourav Ganguly

    35

    Kapil Dev

    40

    During the course of his innings, Kohli also completed his 3000 runs in Test cricket, becoming the 19th Indian to do so. Kohli is consistently improving upon his rate of reaching every progressive milestone of 1000 runs as is clear from the following table:

    Inns

    First 1000 runs

    27

    Next 1000 runs

    26

    Next 1000 runs

    20