Virat Kohli's 100th Test: Defining moments of his glittering career

But as the governing body of the sport, the ICC can only introduce measures, it is upto the teams and the players to make the game interesting, since it is totally another feeling to play in front of a boisterous crowd cheering for you, as the adrenaline rush raises the bar as far as the performances of the players are concerned.

And if there is one player who can attract the crowds with all his histrionics, fist-pumping on the field, throwing down the gauntlet for the opposition off the field and then match that with his performances with the bat, it is Virat Kohli.

Kohli took over from MS Dhoni as India’s Test captain when the latter quit Test cricket midway during the 2014 tour of Australia – after the third Test at the MCG.

But Kohli first led India in the first Test of the series at Adelaide as Dhoni missed that match due to a thumb injury. Kohli took to Test captaincy just like a fish to water and not only smashed hundreds in both the innings but almost led India to a famous victory.

Powered by its swashbuckling batting and a fearsome fast-bowling attack, Team India rose to the top the Test rankings under Kohli and stayed there for over three years. But Kohli’s best moment as captain came when India registered their maiden Test series triumph in Australia after seven decades of attempting to conquer the land Down Under.

Photo credit: Getty ImagesKohli so far has seven double hundreds to his name. Six out of those seven double hundreds have been scored at home and one abroad. And when he notched up 204 against Bangladesh at Hyderabad in February 2017, it was the fourth consecutive Test series in which Kohli smashed a double ton, breaking the record of Don Bradman and Rahul Dravid who had scored double centuries