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[caption id="attachment_9685" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Sourav Ganguly with Virat Kohli. File Pic[/caption] XtraTime Web Desk: India skipper Virat Kohli on Sunday equaled former captain Sourav Ganguly’s record of most overseas Test wins as the captain of Men in Blue. While playing the Boxing Day test at MCG against Australia Kohli & Co. registered an emphatic 137-run win over Australia to take an unassailable lead of 2-1 in the four-match Test series. With the win, Kohli has now registered 11 Test wins as the captain in the 24 Tests away from home. Ganguly, on the other hand, had attained the same number of wins in 28 Tests. This was India’s 150th Test win as well and with this they became the only fifth country to do so. Australia, England, West Indies and South Africa were the others. Here are some of the major statistics of the MCG Test: Virat Kohli has equals Sourav Ganguly’s record of most wins in Tests away from home, with 11 wins. Ganguly had won 11 Tests in 28 games. MS Dhoni had won 6 games in 30 overseas Tests, while Rahul Dravid had won 5 games in 17 Tests. It is for the first time India have won a Test at MCG in 37 years and 10 months ago. India became the 5th nation to register 150 Test wins, only after, Australia (384), England (364), West Indies (171), and South Africa (162). India have registered four wins outside the sub-continent in 2018 (Johannesburg, Trent Bridge, Adelaide & Melbourne), the most by an Indian team in a calendar year, surpassing three in 1968 (all three in New Zealand).