While Virat Kohli has returned to form in ODIs and T20Is, he has been seen struggling in the longest format of the game.
Kohli has managed to score only 111 runs in five innings in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Test series. It has been over three years since Kohli last scored a century and about 15 Test innings since he last scored a fifty.
Despite the below-average returns in the last three years, Kohli is only 42 runs away from registering 4000 Test runs in India. He will become only the fifth Indian after Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag to reach this landmark.
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If Kohli gets there in the first innings in the 4th Test, he will beat Rahul Dravid and the legendary Sunil Gavaskar to become the third fastest to 4000 Test runs in India.Gavaskar took 87 innings while Dravid took 88. Kohli has 3958 runs in 76 innings.
Sehwag is the fastest to reach 4000 Tests in India in just 71 innings. At No.2 is Tendulkar in 78 innings. The little master, however, sits on top among the highest run-scorers in Tests in India with 7216 runs in 153 innings.
He is followed by Dravid (5598), Gavaskar (5067) and Sehwag (4656). Apart from Kohli, Indian captain Rohit Sharma is just 21 runs away from completing 17000 runs in international cricket.
