India captain Virat Kohli and goalkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant are approaching an interesting feat as India faces South Africa in a three-match test series starting on December 26. Although Kohli can become the third fastest to reach 8,000 test matches, Pant can go beyond his idol MS Dhoni in terms of the number of dismissals. Kohli has only achieved this feat 199 times and will become the fifth Indian batsman to do this after Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Virender Sehwag.
The Indian captain has not made it to the top 100 international in more than 2 years. If he can score in some way, he may become the successor to Tendulkar (154 innings), Dravid (158 innings) and Sehwag (160 innings) The Indian 199, who got there the third fastest, was in the first round of the Boxing Day Test at the Super Sports Park.
In the past two years, he has not scored a century of goals in cricket tests, and fans will pay close attention to him whenever he hits the ball on Centurion. Overall, Kohli will become the 33rd batsman to accumulate 8,000 professional runs in the cricket test.
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