Virat Kohli pulled off the feat for the
first time since January 2022 against South Africa at Newlands in Cape
Town, scoring his first Test fifty in 14 months.
Kohli holed out to Marnus Labuschagne off Todd Murphy's bowling to end
his arduous innings with 186 runs, just missing out on his eighth double
century. Shreyas Iyer's injury caused Kohli to be the final victim as
India's innings came to an end at 571/9 with a 91-run advantage.
Ravi Shastri, former head coach of India screamed on commentary, "a
600-kilo gorilla is off his back. He will grow a couple of inches taller
by this evening".
Kohli, faced a long scoring drought in 2017, failing to hit three digits
for more than a thousand days.
He quit as T20I skipper in late 2021 and in January 2022 was sacked from
the one-day captaincy and gave up leading the Test side, too. But he hit
his first ton after 1,020 days in the Asia Cup T20 tournament in September
last year and hasn't looked back since.
Since his debut in 2011, the former captain has played in 108 Test
matches, averaging over 48, and he has scored 75 hundreds across the three
international formats.
source : tweeted by ICC