Sat Oct 19 15:02:06 UTC 2024: In the first Test match between India and New Zealand at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Virat Kohli became the fourth Indian cricketer to score 9,000 Test runs. He reached this milestone in his 197th innings, joining legends Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, and Sunil Gavaskar. Despite scoring a duck in the first innings, Kohli went on to score a fifty in the second innings. The 35-year-old batsman has recorded 29 hundreds and 31 half-centuries, with his highest Test score being 254 not out against South Africa in 2019.