Virat Kohli Becomes the First Indian Captain to Win Tests in Australia, England and South Africa

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First Indian Captain to Win Tests in Australia:-  Team India on Monday morning finally dragged Australia to the back foot and eventually clinched first test victory in the 4 test matches series. After a hard-fought tussle, India finally won the first test match by a 31 runs margin and became the only Asian captain to win tests in Australia, England, and South Africa.

First Indian Captain to Win Tests in Australia

 

First Indian Captain to Win Tests in Australia:-  His predecessors Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, and MS Dhoni won test matches never managed to win against all the overseas nations, fortunes only presented Virat Kohli to rewrite the history books and prove his leadership skills to the cricket fraternity.

Virat Kohli has captained India in 43 test matches and emerged victorious on 17 occasions, which includes test matches win in South Africa, England and now Australia.

It took 10 years for India to win a test match against Australia in Australia. India hasn’t tasted victory since it won a test match at Perth under Anil Kumble captaincy. Since then India lost 0-4 against Australia in 2011-12 and 0-2 in 2014-15.

It took 15 years for men in blue to register a victory against Australia in Adelaide. The year was 2003 when Ganguly and his men defeated veteran Steve Waugh in Adelaide. Rahul Dravid was adjudged man of the match for his match winning 233.

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