Two great Australian batsmen - Don Bradman and Ricky Ponting had achieved the feat six times each. And among Indian captains, only MS Dhoni had managed 200 or more runs in a winning cause, when the former captain scored 224 against Australia in Chennai in February 2013.
It was the tenth instance Kohli has scored 200-plus runs in a Test as captain, which is also a record for the India skipper.
Following's are the few feats Kohli achieved during the Nottingham Test:
# By posting his first hundred in a winning cause (103 vs England at Nottingham in the just concluded Test) in four major Test playing countries - England, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand - Kohli has created history of sorts. Having scored 97 in the first innings of the Nottingham Test, he has become the first captain in Test annals to manage 200 runs or more in a Test match in a winning cause seven times.
# Two great Australian batsmen - Don Bradman (four times vs England and twice vs India) and Ricky Ponting (twice each vs Pakistan & South Africa and once each vs West Indies and England) - had achieved the feat six times each.
# Among Indian captains, just one other captain had managed 200 runs or more in a winning cause - MS Dhoni - 224 vs Australia at Chennai in February 2013. Kohli's Man of the Match award in the Nottingham Test is his second instance in an overseas Test - the first being for scoring 215 - 119 & 96 vs South Africa at Johannesburg in December 2013.
# Kohli's overall feat of ten instances of scoring 200 runs in a Test as captain remains a record in Test Cricket.
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