BCCI announces that Virat Kohli will lead India in 1st test against Australia

India’s star batsman Virat Kohli is on a high – he has scored the fastest 6000 runs in ODI and eclipsed the record set by Vivian Richards who had scored 6000 runs in 141 innings while Kohli did it in 135 innings.
Incidentally, Anushka Sharma was present in the stands and Kohli blew her a flying kiss on achieving the record – her name has been linked with Kohli and the Bollywood actress is believed to be his lady love.
Kohli has also reason to celebrate because he would continue to captain India in the remaining two ODIs and also be at the helm for the 1st test in Australia since the regular captain M S Dhoni is not well – he has suffered from an injury to his forearm and, hence, would miss the first Test against Australia. However, he will lead the squad in the rest of the series against Australia.
The Indian team would leave for Australia on November 21 and are scheduled to play a four-match Test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy from December 4, 2014 to January 7, 2015. The Test matches would be held at Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
The Border-Gavaskar trophy is played between Australia and India and was started in 1996 in honor of the two cricketing greats of Australia and India namely Alan Border and Sunil Gavaskar. Before the start of this trophy, the two countries had played each other 50 times in Tests in a 49 year period from 1947 to 1996.
Incidentally, the Border-Gavaskar trophy began in 1996–97 with a one-off Test that was captained by Sachin Tendulkar – it was played at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground in Delhi.