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Virat Kohli becomes first Indian captain to score double century outside India

India test team captain Virat Kohli on 22 July 2016 became the first Indian captain to score a double century outside India.
Kohli scored 200 runs against West Indies on day two of the first Test at the Sir Vivian Richards stadium in North Sound.
•    Virat Kohli is the fifth Indian captain to score a double century in a Test match after Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi (2013 vs England), Sunil Gavaskar (205 vs West Indies), Sachin Tendulkar (217 vs New Zealand) and MS Dhoni (224 vs Australia).
•    It is the highest score by an Indian skipper away from home. Mohammad Azharuddin had scored 192 against New Zealand in Auckland in 1990.
•    It is his highest score in first-class cricket and highest in Test cricket.
•    It is his highest score in the first innings as captain in West Indies. Earlier, Ricky Ponting has scored 158 in Kingston in 2008.
•    It is the third double hundred by a visiting captain in West Indies, after 205 by Len Hutton in Kingston in 1954 and 201 by Bob Simpson in Bridgetown in 1965.
•    It is the first double century for India outside the sub-continent since Wasim Jaffer's 212 in St. John's in 2006.

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