Kohli, playing his 42nd Test, took 73 innings to reach the milestone behind Virender Sehwag (55 innings), Mohammad Azharuddin (64), Sunil Gavaskar (66), Gautam Gambhir (66), Rahul Dravid (67), Sachin Tendulkar (67) and Navjot Singh Sidhu (70).
Kohli has scored 11 hundreds in the five-day format to go with 12 half centuries.