Virat Kohli on brink of creating history and joining ELITE list in Bangladesh Tests

India batter Virat Kohli will have a chance to join an elite list in the upcoming two-Test series against Bangladesh. The first Test starts September 19 and Kohli is 152 runs short of becoming only fourth Indian batter to score 9000 or more Test runs.

If Virat, who has 8,848 runs in 113 Test so far, score those 152 runs then he'll join Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sunil Gavaskar with 9000or more Test runs for India.

Tendulkar, at 15,921, has the most Test runs for India with Dravid behind him at 13,265 runs and Gavaskar at third place with 10,122 Test runs.

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Virat will also have the chance to score his 30th Test ton and join the above three as only Indian players to score 30 or more Test hundreds. As of now, Virat has 29 Test tons and 30 Test fifties.

Virat's form this year is a cause of concerns with the batter scoring just 296 runs 15 innings of 14 matches across formats at an average of 19.73.

The star batter, however, has scored 369 runs at an average 61.50 in four Tests he has played so far in the ongoing World Test Championship (WTC) cycle 2023/25.

India have a bumper Test season coming up with Rohit Sharma-led side set to host New Zealand after the two Tests against Bangladesh.

India then travel to Australia for the highly-anticipated five-Test Border-Gavaskar series in November where they aim to win a Test series for the third consecutive time.

India last lost to Australia in a Test series in 2014, which was played in Australia. Since then, India have won all four series played between the two countries, two in India and two in Australia.