India‘s emphatic 203-run win in the Trent Bridge Test against England was the culmination of some incredible individual and collective efforts.
For the second time in the series, captain Virat Kohli scored 200 runs in a Test. There were five wicket hauls for all-rounder Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah, plus fifties for Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara and Pandya.
India’s fast bowlers accounted for 19 out of the 20 wickets to fall, coming close to the feat they achieved in at the Wanderers Test earlier in the year when all their scalps were picked up by quicks.
The result not only brought India back into the series, making the scoreline 2-1, it also took captain Kohli past Sourav Ganguly on the all-time most successful Indian captains’ list.
Most scores of Fifty or more by Indian captain in Test wins:
— BrokenStats (@Broken_Statz) August 22, 2018
14 Virat Kohli
13 MS Dhoni
10 Saurav Ganguly#INDvENG
Kohli now has 22 Test wins from 38 matches as captain. He has now gone past Ganguly, who had 21 wins from 49 matches, and is now only behind MS Dhoni (27 wins from 60 matches) when it comes to Indian skippers.
However, Kohli’s winning percentage has already catapulted him into the all-time successful captains’ list. Kohli’s winning percentage of 57.8 per cent puts him fourth on the all-time list among captains who have led in at least 30 Tests.
Australian great Steve Waugh leads the way with a win percentage of 71.9 (41 wins from 57 Tests), followed by fellow Aussie Ricky Ponting on 62.3 (48 wins from 77 matches) and English tactician Mike Brearley on 58.06 (18 wins from 31 games).
West Indies great Viv Richards had a win percentage of 54, with 27 victories in 50 Tests.
