5 best second innings Test centuries

Virat Kohli (141 vs Australia)

Perhaps the biggest heartbreak in Virat Kohli's glittering career came in the year 2014 in Adelaide when he scripted history by smashing a century in both the innings of a Test match and despite the superhuman effort, his team fell short by 48 runs. The excruciating result, but emancipating innings.

India were chasing a target of 364 runs and almost miraculously, the third wicket stand between Murali Vijay and Virat Kohli (157) put the visitors on the cusp of something special.

Kohli played like a man possessed. Each stroke that came off the stand-in captain's willow reassured an entire cricket-crazy nation. He played every stroke in his arsenal with utmost precision and it seemed that he did not even blink before getting his hundred.

Just when the victory was in sight for the touring party, Kohli was undone courtesy a short ball from Nathan Lyon. As Kohli departed, the rest of the batting folded and Australia won the match by 48 runs.