Kohli legend based on purple patch in the middle of his career
As Virat Kohli lets go of the Test whites, his 210 innings encompass a start that wasn’t quite meteoric, the somewhat barren run towards the end, and an undisputable purple patch in between.It’s the superhuman phase that began with his first Test as captain in Australia in 2014, only a year after taking over the No.4 spot from his immediate predecessor Sachin Tendulkar. It suggested that he would follow his idol as well as Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar, in becoming the fourth Indian to conquer Test cricket’s Mt. 10,000.
But even after his imperious 100-innings stretch, lasting nearly six-and-a-half years, Kohli stopped at 9,230 runs at 46.83, his average regressing from its peak, which began in late 2014.
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