{"id":60602,"date":"2017-02-10T07:57:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T07:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=60602"},"modified":"2017-02-10T07:57:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T07:57:44","slug":"four-doubles-in-4-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/four-doubles-in-4-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Four doubles in 4 series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Virat Kohli got to his century on Day 1 of the one-off Test with Bangladesh at Hyderabad people predicted he was looking for a big one. That ultimately came on Day 2, when he got to yet another double-century, the fourth of his Test career. It was pretty much on the cards right from the time when he came in to bat. With Kohli&#8217;s scoring spree in Tests continuing into 2017, Australia must be dreading thinking about bowling to the Indian captain in the four-match Test series, starting February 23.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kohli also became the first batsman in Test history to score four double centuries in four consecutive series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60603 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/647_072216091040.jpg\" alt=\"Four doubles in 4 series\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><br \/>\nHe got just one thing wrong in his knock of 204 &#8212; he did not seek the Decision Review System (DRS) when given out lbw off left-arm spinner Taijul Islam. Had he appealed, he&#8217;d have been given not out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The effort was not as fluent as the other efforts, especially the 265 he got against England at Mumbai on December 11 past year. He was at a little bit of odds with the Bangladesh spinners, even being given out on 180 off Mehedi Hasan before DRS came to his rescue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nevertheless, Kohli was determined if nothing else and he soon eliminated the doubts and hesitation as he walked his way towards the landmark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the fifth consecutive time, Kohli converted his century into a 150-plus score as he and Ajinkya Rahane added 222 runs for the fourth wicket<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60604\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/258895.3.png\" alt=\"Four doubles in 4 series\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/258895.3.png 900w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/258895.3-500x280.png 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/258895.3-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The effort also had other records on the way. The Indian skipper became the highest aggregator of Test runs in one home season, overtaking the inimitable Virender Sehwag.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sehwag had scored 1105 runs in the 2004-05 season at an average of 69.06 with four centuries and three half-centuries.<br \/>\nKohli, on the other hand, has played 15 matches so far in the 2016-17 season, having scored 1168 runs so far with the aid of four centuries and two half-centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Virat Kohli got to his century on Day 1 of the one-off Test with Bangladesh at Hyderabad people predicted he was looking for a big one. That ultimately came on Day 2, when he got to yet another double-century, the fourth of his Test career. It was pretty much on the cards right from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29609,2],"tags":[7128,20039,31312,64,11216,4937,31313,8953,10327,31314,8954],"class_list":["post-60602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports-news","category-top-stories","tag-bangladesh","tag-double-hundred","tag-four-doubles-in-4-series","tag-hyderabad","tag-india-captain","tag-kohli","tag-kohli-smashes-fourth-double-hundred","tag-rahane","tag-team-india","tag-uppal","tag-virat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Four-doubles-in-4-series.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}