Virat Kohli against Australia: The Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 has reached an exciting stage. In the first Test match played in Perth, Team India defeated Australia by 295 runs and took a 1-0 lead in the 5-match Test series. However, Team India could not maintain this lead in the second Test match. In the day-night Test match played in Adelaide, Team India’s batsmen could not face the pink ball and Australia won by 10 wickets and leveled the series 1-1. Now both the teams will face each other in the third Test match to be played at Gabba in Brisbane. This match will be played from December 14 in which all eyes will be on Virat Kohli’s performance.
In the first Test match, Virat Kohli scored a brilliant century in the second innings but he flopped in both the innings of the second Test. In such a situation, now Kohli will have a great opportunity to make a comeback in the third Test match. If Kohli flops with the bat in the Gaba Test, then a big record will be registered in his name. In fact, Kohli will create new history as soon as he enters the Gaba Test match. Along with participating in the Gaba Test match, Virat Kohli will hit a special century which is so far only in the name of Sachin Tendulkar.
New history will be created against Australia
Let us tell you, the Gaba Test will be the 121st Test match of Kohli’s Test career. Kohli will play his 28th Test match against Australia. In this way, Virat will become only the second player in the world to play 100 matches against Australia in international cricket. Currently, this record is only in the name of Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin played a total of 110 matches against Australia in all three formats. At the same time, Virat has played 99 matches against Australia so far. This includes 27 Test matches, 49 ODI matches and 23 T20I matches.
Players who played most matches against Australia
- 110 – Sachin Tendulkar
- 99 – Virat Kohli
- 97 – Desmond Haynes
- 91 – Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- 88 – Vivian Richards