Kohli's 500th international match

Star India batter Virat Kohli scripting history on Thursday as he takes the field against the West Indies in the second and final Test of the series.

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The Indian batting mainstay will be playing his 500th international match of what has been one of the more illustrious careers in the sport in its 300-plus-year history. Ever since his international debut in 2008, Virat has solidified his status as a legend in the game. Though cricket fans knew that this under-19 World Cup-winning skipper was destined for greatness, the way he went on a record-breaking spree in the 2010s is something unprecedented in the sport.

Not many in the game can boast of a prime that Virat had in the 2010s, which saw him become the ‘ICC Men’s Player of the Decade’. Virat has represented India in 110 Test matches, in which he has scored 8,555 runs at an average of 48.88. He has scored 28 centuries and 29 half-centuries in his career, with the best score of 254*. He is India’s fifth-highest run-scorer in Tests and one of the modern era’s greats in the format. Virat has smashed a total of seven double centuries, which is the highest by an Indian batter.