A look at Virat Kohli's legacy as Test captain, a decade after Adelaide 2014

On this day back in 2014, star India batter Virat Kohli took to the field as the Test captain for the first time ever during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, marking a start of perhaps the country's golden period in Test cricket, which witnessed plenty of records broken, on-field confrontations and aggression and the long-format cricket at its very best, which marked a massive paradigm shift in the way India played its cricket in white clothing.

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The first Test against Australia at Adelaide Oval saw a 25-year-old donning the captain's blazer for the first time ever, due to MS Dhoni's unavailability due to an injury. The young Indian rising star, under fire following a poor tour of England, which saw him struggle against the mighty swing of legendary James Anderson and Stuart Broad and score just 134 runs in 10 innings across five Tests, had something to prove when he landed on Australian shores. That he belonged in the whites and his previous Test tons, including ones in New Zealand and South Africa, were not a fluke. Already an established player in white-ball set-up, Virat was out there to prove that he could hang out with the best in the most difficult conditions.