3 records even Virat Kohli will find difficult to break

#1 Highest Test score

Brian Lara

It can be said with a certain degree of confidence that the record of the highest individual score in Test cricket will remain with Brian Lara for a pretty long time.

Lara smashed a sensational 400 not out against England at Antigua in 2004. This was almost exactly 10 years after he broke Garry Sobers’ record of 365 not out to claim the world record for the highest Test score - 375.

In an amazing coincidence, the knock in 1994 came at the same venue and against the same opponent as 2004.

With his 400*, Lara reclaimed the world record for the highest Test score, which was briefly in the name of Aussie Matthew Hayden. Hayden plundered 380 against Zimbabwe at Perth in October 2003.

It is not as if Kohli doesn't have the stamina or the aptitude to score 400. But the fact is that such a marathon innings invariably ends up in the Test being drawn, and Kohli is not someone who would carry on his innings longer than needed.

Recent Indian sides, especially since the times of Sourav Ganguly, have put the team before self. The only situation in which Kohli would go hard to achieve personal glory would be where there is nothing at stake in a game.

Considering the strength of the present Indian bowling outfit, that is likely to be a rarest of rare case.