Milestone Men: Mohali Test against Sri Lanka is Virat Kohli's 100th and Rohit Sharma's first as Test captain

Cricket Association (PCA) stadium in Mohali, there are digital billboards reminding you that Virat Kohli is about to take the field for the 100th time in Test cricket on Friday. About half a day after the Indian cricket board (BCCI) and the PCA announced that the first Test against Sri Lanka can have a crowd at 50 per cent of capacity, there were people queuing up outside various gates of the stadium enquiring about the availability of tickets. For once, the PCA officials are hopeful a sizeable crowd will turn up at a venue which is infamous for poor turnouts in Test matches. For most part of Wednesday, any semblance of buzz around was all about Virat Kohli and his 100th Test until an 18-year-old boy dressed in Mumbai Indians jersey, waiting outside the gate to check for tickets, offered a reality check.

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48 hours before Virat Kohli gears up to play his landmark 100th Test and Rohit Sharma walks out from the PCA Stadium pavilion in a navy blue India blazer for the first time, they simply looked like two men possessed and intensely focussed to make their milestone moment special

As a bunch of reporters were about to enter the stadium, the boy screamed: “We are here to watch Rohit Sharma.” As you paused and looked around before sneaking through the gate, he speared in a question with a sheepish smile: “Is there really a rift between Rohit and Virat?” He went on to add: “The Virat Kohli fans in my friends circle of school students will be here to celebrate Virat but there is a group which will come to see Rohit captain in a Test.” Both Kohli and Rohit are tired of answering questions on their speculated rift. Their careers have run parallelly like