Star India batter Virat Kohli reached one other landmark on day one of many first Test match in opposition to South Africa in Centurion on Tuesday to turn into the very best run-getter for India within the World Test Championship (WTC) 2019-2025. The former India skipper surpassed Rohit Sharma to realize the milestone. Kohli scored 2101 runs in 57 innings. While Rohit made 2097 runs in 42 innings. Apart from Kohli and Rohit, Cheteshwar Pujara holds the third place on the checklist with 1769 runs in 62 innings. Following that Ajinkya Rahane (1589 runs in 49 innings) and Rishabh Pant (1575 runs in 41 innings) stand on the checklist respectively.

Kohli didn’t make a mark in India’s first inning and scored 38 runs from 64 balls with a strike fee of 59.38. The 35-year-old smashed 5 fours in opposition to the Proteas bowling assault. However, he was unfortunate in entrance of Kagiso Rabada after the pacer dismissed the batter within the 30.6 overs.

Recapping the primary day of the Test match, rain performed spoilsport as the vast majority of the third session was dominated out on Day 1 of the primary Test between India and South Africa on the SuperSport Park.

At the top of Day 1, India posted a complete of 208/8 in 59 overs with KL Rahul and Mohammed Siraj unbeaten with respective scores of 70 (105)* and 0 (10)*.

KL Rahul fought valiantly all through the time that he spent on the sphere. While the remainder of the batters failed to beat Kagiso Rabada, he fought with vigour to take India’s rating previous the 200-run mark. Siraj additionally confirmed endurance throughout the 10 balls that he confronted he confronted.

The solely casualty within the ultimate session was Jasprit Bumrah, who misplaced his endurance and ended up shedding his wicket to Marco Jansen after taking part in 19 balls.