V Kohli’s 123* against Sri Lanka in the ongoing test at Nagpur against Sri Lanka represent his twelfth century while captaining India. He now owns the record for most centuries by an Indian captain. He went past SM Gavaskar had scored eleven centuries while leading India. The centuries scored by these two captains are listed below {Figures at the Lunch time on the third day of the test between India and Sri Lanka at Nagpur}

No	Player	Runs	Inns	Opposition	Ground	Start Date
1	SM Gavaskar	116	2	v New Zealand	Auckland	24 Jan 1976
2	SM Gavaskar	205	1	v West Indies	Mumbai	1 Dec 1978
3	SM Gavaskar	107	1	v West Indies	Kolkata	29 Dec 1978
4	SM Gavaskar	182*	3	v West Indies	Kolkata	29 Dec 1978
5	SM Gavaskar	120	1	v West Indies	Delhi	24 Jan 1979
6	SM Gavaskar	115	1	v Australia	Delhi	13 Oct 1979
7	SM Gavaskar	123	1	v Australia	Mumbai	03 Nov 1979
8	SM Gavaskar	166	2	v Pakistan	Chennai	15 Jan 1980
9	SM Gavaskar	172	2	v England	Bengaluru	09 Dec 1981
10	SM Gavaskar	155	2	v Sri Lanka	Chennai	17 Sep 1982
11	SM Gavaskar	127*	3	v Pakistan	Faisalabad	03 Jan 1983
1	V Kohli	115	2	v Australia	Adelaide	09 Dec 2014
2	V Kohli	141	4	v Australia	Adelaide	09 Dec 2014
3	V Kohli	147	2	v Australia	Sydney	06 Jan 2015
4	V Kohli	103	2	v Sri Lanka	Galle	12 Aug 2015
5	V Kohli	200	1	v West Indies	North Sound	21 Jul 2016
6	V Kohli	211	1	v New Zealand	Indore	08 Oct 2016
7	V Kohli	167	1	v England	Visakhapatnam	17 Nov 2016
8	V Kohli	235	2	v England	Mumbai	08 Dec 2016
9	V Kohli	204	1	v Bangladesh	Hyd-RGS	09 Feb 2017
10	V Kohli	103*	3	v Sri Lanka	Galle	26 Jul 2017
11	V Kohli	104*	3	v Sri Lanka	Kolkata	16 Nov 2017
12	V Kohli	123*	2	v Sri Lanka	Nagpur-J	24 Nov 2017