{"id":75017,"date":"2019-11-23T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T11:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=75017"},"modified":"2019-11-23T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T11:24:34","slug":"virat-kohli-achieves-huge-milestone-in-historic-pink-ball-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/virat-kohli-achieves-huge-milestone-in-historic-pink-ball-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli achieves huge milestone in historic pink ball Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Virat Kohli is destined to go down in history as the most successful Indian captain, at least for now, in Test cricket. Apart from his win percentage as a Test captain, what has stood out is his own form with the bat. Kohli is a leader on the field and also as a batsman. His performance with a willow in hand in cricket\u2019s longest format has been stupendous to say the least, ever since he took over as captain of the Indian team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, he added another glorious record to his kitty as he completed 5000 Test runs as captain on the first day of the historic pink-ball Test against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. By doing so, Kohli has now joined an elite list of international captains who have score 5000 or more runs in Test matches as skippers of their respective sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West Indian legend Clive Lloyd is fourth with 5233 runs from 74 matches, while New Zealand\u2019s Stephen Fleming notched up 5156 runs from 80 matches in charge of the Kiwis. Kohli reached the mark in his 53rd Test match.<\/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>Virat Kohli is destined to go down in history as the most successful Indian captain, at least for now, in Test cricket. Apart from his win percentage as a Test captain, what has stood out is his own form with the bat. Kohli is a leader on the field and also as a batsman. His [&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":75018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75017","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\/75017","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=75017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75019,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75017\/revisions\/75019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}