India's star batter Virat Kohli etches his name in the history books by becoming the fastest player to cross the 27,000 international run mark.

Virat Kohli achieved his first half-century of the year in the second innings of the first Test against New Zealand, becoming the fourth Indian batter to surpass 9,000 Test runs. He took 197 innings to reach this milestone,

In the first innings of the match, Sarfaraz Khan got out for a duck. He redeemed himself in the second innings, as he slammed a century in just 110 balls at a strike rate of above 90. He thus becomes the 9th Indian ever to score a century in the second innings after getting for 0 in the first innings of a Test match.