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NEIL MANTHORP: Captain Kohli deserves applause despite hard edginess
Virat Kohli is the holder of many records and will no doubt break many more before his career comes to an end. He has reached 50 36 times in Test cricket and converted 21 of those innings into hundreds which, as a percentage, is second only to Donald Bradman. Monday was his ninth score in excess of 150. He has passed untroubled through the 90s on his past 16 visits there, which equals Sunil Gavaskar’s Indian record but is some way behind the game’s international leaders, Younus Khan (32), Bradman (29) and Kumar Sangakkara (23). But such is his apparently relentless ruthlessness, you wouldn’t bet on him stumbling in the nervous 90s anytime soon. Without their captain this Indian team would be well on its way to defeat in both the Test and the series but they are alive and kicking, still in with a chance of upsetting the Proteas at a venue where the South Africans have won an extraordinary 17 of 22 Tests and lost only twice, once to Australia and once to England in discredited circums...
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