Top 5 Test wins under Virat Kohli

England v India: Specsavers 3rd Test - Day Five
England v India: Specsavers 3rd Test - Day Five

#4 Beat South Africa by 337 runs at Delhi, 2015

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The series was already won, but there were question marks clouding India's 2-0 lead against South Africa going into the final Test of the series. There were veiled remarks all over about the "doctored" pitches in the series and how the conditions were "unfair".

On the first batting friendly deck of the series, the Indians had a point to prove. Ajinkya Rahane's magnificent century took India to 334 in the first innings and that's when their dominance began.

Ravindra Jadeja scythed through the South African batting and aided by Kohli's ruthless captaincy, the entire bowling unit was able to exact so much pressure that a batsman of AB de Villiers' ability holed out at long-on with his side trailing by 216 runs. South Africa eventually found all their batsman in the shed having scored only 121 runs.

Rahane's second hundred of the match left South Africa chasing either 481 runs or prying out time in form of six sessions. Six sessions on a wearing subcontinental track, and being the stubborn side they have always been, they somehow found the will to play out the overs.

Led by de Villiers' six hour marathon and Hashim Amla's five hour stonewalling, South Africa managed to bat out 555 minutes, but the Indians never gave up and made each ball a testing effort. Kohli's excellent maneuver of having Ravi Ashwin bowl around the wicket to de Villiers with a leg slip got India the most important wicket of the innings to seal the match.

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