Ian Chappell’s admiration for Virat Kohli kicked in when the Indian batting great notched up the first of his 30 Test centuries in the fourth and final Test of the 2011-12 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series at the Adelaide Oval in January 2012. By the time Kohli was back for Test cricket at the South Australian venue, he scored a hundred in each innings. This time, for a lost cause too, but the defeat was not as debilitating as the 2012 Test which India lost by 298 runs. In fact, his second innings century as stand-in captain against Michael Clarke’s men gave India a good chance of winning; his team ending up 48 runs short. Chappell told mid-day from Sydney on Monday that Kohli’s 141 was the best three-figure innings he had seen in a chase. “They [innings of 115 and 141] would definitely be standouts. Kohli was probably near his peak at that stage. The only other knock that would come close to Kohli’s 141 would be Ricky Ponting’s at Old Trafford [156 vs England in 2005].” 

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