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Virat Kohli notches up career best Test score, piles up slew of records

By Saurabh Sharma October 11, 2019 • 16:27 PM View: 1477

Pune, Oct 11: Virat Kohli on Friday slammed his career best Test score of 254 as India posted a mammoth 601/5 before declaring on Day 2 of the second Test against South Africa .

Kohli, whose previous best was 243 against Sri Lanka, also became the Indian captain with the highest score in the five-day format.

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