Virat Kohli’s 71st century has now become a hot topic. The Indian team has to play the second match of the two-match Test series against Sri Lanka in Bangalore, which will be a Day-Night Test. The special thing is that in 2019, Kohli scored the last century i.e. 70th century in the Day-Night Test against Bangladesh.
Apart from this, Team India will win the 15th consecutive Test series at home by winning the Pink Ball Test against Sri Lanka. They will be the first team to do so as Australia at number two have been able to win 10 consecutive series at home. No one is even around India in this matter.
This will be the third pink ball test in India. Day-Night Test was held for the first time in November 2019 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Teams of India and Bangladesh were face to face in this match. India won this match by an innings and 46 runs. In this match, Virat Kohli scored a century of 136 runs, which was the 70th century of his career. Since then, his 71st century has not come after 71 innings.
The second Day-Night Test was played in India in February 2021 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. In this match, the Indian team defeated England by 10 wickets and the match was over in two days. The match was low scoring and the visitors were reduced to 112 while playing first. In reply, India were also all out for 145. After this again England could only score 81 runs. In the fourth innings, India scored 49 runs without losing any wicket and won the match.
The Indian team last suffered a series defeat in November 2012 against England. MS Dhoni was the captain of the team at that time. Since then, India has not lost any Test series at home and has won 14 Test series at home. All those series are as follows:-
India won the Mohali Test by defeating Sri Lanka by an innings and 222 runs in the first match of the ongoing two-match Test series. With this win, India took a 1-0 lead. India’s invincible sequence, even if India loses this match, will continue and the series will be drawn. If the match is drawn or India wins, it will be their 15th consecutive Test series win at home.