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posted on: Jul 23, 2016 9:58AM
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Indian skipper Virat Kohli scored his maiden Test double century against the West Indies on the second day of first Test at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Friday, to become the first Indian Test captain to hit a double ton on foreign soil. And broke former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin record score of 192 against New Zealand in 1990. It took Kohli 42 Test matches to reach a milestone. Kohli, who took 281 deliveries to achieve the milestone. Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin helped the visitors amass 552 for eight on day two of the test with Ashwin also hitting a century.
The world no. 1 all-rounder is now one of the very few batsmen who managed to score test centuries against the West Indies. Ashwin's century is his third ton in tests and all of them have come against the hosts, he scored it at a strike rate of 44.66. The hosts face an uphill task of scoring at least 367 to save an impending follow on.





