Consider the following statements about Cricket player Virat Kohli: 1. He is the only captain to have scored seven double centuries in Test Cricket 2. He is the only Indian cricketer with most centuries as a captain 3. He is the first Indian captain to achieve twin centuries on captaincy debut 4. He holds the record for the most double centuries by an Indian in Test Cricket Which of the statements given above are correct?
- (a)1 and 2 only
- (b)2 and 3 only
- (c)1, 3 and 4 only
- (d)1, 2, 3 and 4
Correct — D, 1, 2, 3 and 4. All four statements about Virat Kohli hold. He has scored seven double centuries in Test cricket, all made while he was captain — the most Test double hundreds by any captain (statement 1) and the most by any Indian batsman (statement 4). He also holds the most Test centuries by an Indian captain (statement 2). And on his Test captaincy debut at Adelaide in December 2014 he made 115 and 141, becoming the first Indian captain to score twin centuries in the same match (statement 3). None of the statements is wrong, so the answer covers all four.
- (a)1 and 2 only — It leaves out statements 3 and 4, both of which are also correct — the Adelaide 2014 twin centuries on captaincy debut and the record for most Test double centuries by an Indian.
- (b)2 and 3 only — It drops statements 1 and 4, which are true — Kohli's seven Test double centuries are both the most by any captain and the most by any Indian.
- (c)1, 3 and 4 only — It omits statement 2, which is also correct — Kohli holds the most Test centuries by an Indian captain.
Virat Kohli captained India in Test cricket from 2014–15 to early 2022 and became the country's most successful Test captain by wins. During that spell he was also India's most prolific run-scorer as captain, and his run of big scores included seven double centuries — a purple patch between 2016 and 2019 that reshaped several batting records.
The question is an 'all statements correct' trap: students instinctively hunt for the one false claim and pick a partial option. Here each statement is a genuine, separate record — the double-century count, the captaincy centuries tally, and the Adelaide twin-hundred debut — so the safe move is to confirm all four rather than assume one must be wrong.
- Kohli has scored seven double centuries in Test cricket, the most by any Indian batsman.
- All seven double centuries came while he was India's Test captain, the most by any captain.
- On his Test captaincy debut at Adelaide in December 2014 he scored 115 and 141 — twin centuries in one match.
- He is India's most successful Test captain and holds the most Test centuries by an Indian captain.
- 'All correct' is a valid answer — do not reject it just because every statement looks true.
- Watch the qualifier: 'as a captain' and 'by an Indian' are different records that can both be true.
Sports current affairs is tested as a multi-statement records item, tempting candidates into a partial answer when the key is actually 'all of them'.
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On his Test captaincy debut at Adelaide in December 2014, Virat Kohli became the first Indian captain to
- (a)score a century in each innings of the match
- (b)take five wickets on debut as captain
- (c)declare in both innings
- (d)win a Test in Australia
Answer(a) score a century in each innings of the match — he made 115 and 141 in his first Test as captain.
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Which batsman holds the record for the most double centuries by a captain in Test cricket?
- (a)Ricky Ponting
- (b)Don Bradman
- (c)Virat Kohli
- (d)Brian Lara
Answer(c) Virat Kohli — his seven Test double centuries, all as captain, are the most by any captain.