{"id":43768,"date":"2018-10-05T12:21:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=43768"},"modified":"2018-10-05T12:21:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:21:41","slug":"india-vs-west-indies-virat-kohli-scripts-history-in-rajkot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/india-vs-west-indies-virat-kohli-scripts-history-in-rajkot\/","title":{"rendered":"India vs West Indies: Virat Kohli scripts history in Rajkot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian captain Virat Kohli scripted history when he became the first Indian batsman to score 1000 Test runs in three consecutive years. He got to the milestone with a sumptuous off drive off the first ball he faced after lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli, who notched up his 11th Test hundred in India and 8th as captain at home, was also the second fastest to 24 Test centuries after Don Bradman (66)\u2009as the Indian cricket team skipper took 123 innings to reach the milestone.<\/p>\n<p>He put on 133 runs for the fifth wicket with young wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant. Kohli has scored two centuries against West Indies, and both have come as a skipper.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian captain also surpassed Australia\u2019s Steve Smith to go second in the list of centurions among active players, behind South Africa\u2019s Hashim Amla on 28.<\/p>\n<p>India went past 500 before Lunch without breaking a sweat.<\/p>\n<p>This was India\u2019s eleventh 500+ total against Windies and 6th in India against the Caribbean side. The hosts have never lost a match against Windies after posting a 500 plus total in the match.<\/p>\n<p>India have posted a 500+ total in an innings they have drawn 8 matches out of 10 in the past against West Indies, winning just two.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian captain Virat Kohli scripted history when he became the first Indian batsman to score 1000 Test runs in three consecutive years. He got to the milestone with a sumptuous off drive off the first ball he faced after lunch. Kohli, who notched up his 11th Test hundred in India and 8th as captain at [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43770,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43768\/revisions\/43770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}