IND vs BAN: Will Virat Kohli end the year by ending the century drought in Test cricket? Will break Smith’s record, will match Joe Root
India vs Bangladesh, 2nd Test Match: The second Test match between India and Bangladesh is to be played from 22 December 2022 at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.
Virat Kohli in 2022: In the second Test match against Bangladesh, where Team India (IND vs BAN 2nd Test) will be eyeing to clean up the host team. At the same time, the fans of Virat Kohli, the former captain of the Indian Cricket Team, would be hoping that their favorite player ends the year 2022 by ending the century drought in Test cricket. Virat Kohli scored his last century in Test cricket in November 2019 against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens ground.
Since then, Virat Kohli has played 19 Test matches so far, but could not touch the three-figure mark in any of them. Meanwhile, Virat Kohli had not scored a single century in international cricket since November 2019 till September 2022. However, on 8 September 2022, he got a different look in the match against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup.
On that day Virat Kohli scored his first T20 century at the international level. After this, Virat Kohli ended the drought of his centuries in ODI matches by scoring a century against Bangladesh on 10 December 2022. Now again Bangladesh team is in front. In such a situation, fans would expect Virat Kohli to end his century drought in this format by scoring a century in the second Test against Bangladesh.
If Virat Kohli is successful in ending the drought of a century in Test cricket, then he will match former England Test captain Joe Root, while South Africa’s Will break Graeme Smith’s record of scoring a Test century.
Virat Kohli has so far scored 8094 runs in 103 matches at an average of 49.35 in Test cricket. He has 27 centuries in this. Joe Root has scored 10629 runs in 127 Tests at an average of 49.43. This also includes 28 centuries of Joe Root. Former Australian cricket team captain Allen Border and former South Africa captain Graeme Smith have scored 11174 and 9265 runs in 156 and 117 Test matches respectively.
Graeme Smith and Allen Border both have 27-27 Test cricket centuries. In such a situation, if Virat Kohli scores a century in the second Test match against Bangladesh, he will not only end the drought of 3 years, but will also end 2022 with a century.
