Pune: India skipper Virat Kohli struck a double century and surpassed batting great Don Bradman’s Test tally of 6,996 runs in the second Test against South Africa on Friday.

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Kohli completed his seventh 200 in his 81st Test.

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He swept Senuran Muthusamy for two runs to reach the landmark and raised his bat with a smile to an ovation from the crowd in Pune.

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Kohli has now scored more than 7,000 Test runs at an average of over 53 since making his debut in the West Indies in 2011.

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The benchmark puts him in the top 50 Test run-getters, a field led by Indian icon Sachin Tendulkar with 15,921 runs in 200 matches.

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Tendulkar retired in 2013 with 100 international centuries across formats.

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Kohli has the most double hundreds among Indian batsmen, while Bradman leads the international list with 12 to his name.

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Playing his 50th Test as captain, Kohli has overtaken many big names in Test cricket.

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Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya and Australian Steve Smith (6973 each), and former England batsman Len Hutton (6971) are now behind Kohli in Test runs.

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While Kohli needed 138 innings to get this far, Bradman got the runs in 80 innings at an average of 99.94.

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The 30-year-old skipper also registered his ninth 150 plus score, once again going past Bradman’s eight.

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Kohli has also notched 11,520 runs including 43 centuries in 239 one-day internationals.

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