What happened to Kohli after all? Failed badly on Australian tour, increased problems for the team!
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli: After the retirement of great batsman Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli has been the pivot of the Indian batting order and has rescued Team India from difficult situations many times. But Kohli has flopped badly on the current Australian tour and has not scored runs from his bat. Far from scoring runs, he longs to stay at the crease. When Team India needed him the most in the Test series. Then he threw the wicket and returned to the pavilion. Kohli has a status of his own, but he has not been able to perform as per his name. That too when he likes to score runs against Australia. In such a situation, a question is arising in the minds of all Indians whether Kohli will get a chance on the England tour or not. Because Rohit Sharma himself has taken rest from the fifth test.
Was out on consecutive off stump balls
Virat Kohli shouted at himself and punched his thigh when he was caught in the slips for the eighth time during the Border Gavaskar Trophy. 36-year-old Kohli was out on the ball of Scott Boland going outside the off stump on the second day of the fifth Test against Australia. There is no sign of solving this problem of theirs which is more mental than technical. It is no longer difficult for the bowlers to trouble him due to his continuous dismissal in the same manner. Not only Kohli himself but even the team management is not able to understand his habit of tampering with the ball going out of the off-stump, why such a great batsman is repeating the same mistake every time.
Failed badly in the test series against Australia
Excluding 136 runs in two innings of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia in Perth and Melbourne, he has scored only 54 runs in the remaining seven innings. It is understood that Kohli is in no mood to retire and wants to play the 2027 ODI World Cup. Former India coach Ravi Shastri is repeatedly saying that he can play more. But a former selector asked how Kohli would stake his claim in the team for the England tour in June. He said that it would be difficult for the selectors to choose Rohit Sharma or Virat Kohli on the basis of IPL performance or form. If he does not have to play Test cricket before the England tour, then on what basis will he be selected?
Virat Kohli has scored 190 runs in 5 Test matches in the current series, out of which he has scored a century. If sources are to be believed, Kohli does not even intend to play Ranji Trophy which is to start from January 23. Kohli lives in his new home in London most of the time and comes only to play with the national team or to play in the IPL.
(Input: PTI)
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