New Delhi: It was the seventh of the eight matches currently in progress. Border-Gavaskar Trophy The star India batsman Virat Kohli was dismissed angling outside out.
Apart from the 100 he scored in Perth in the series opener, Kohli has been dismissed seven times in the series so far. Everyone fell behind.
Fateful Kohli’s outside-end happened again in Sydney on Friday as he fell for a fierce 68-ball 17 when Scott Boland forced the star India batsman to sting one outside out.
Kohli’s continued problems outside have prompted former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar to say that the 36-year-old has become a huge worry.
He also said that Kohli’s problem has now become so deep that anyone can pull him out of the line of stumps.
“His biggest strength was his cover drive when he came to the international stage, but now that has turned out to be his biggest weakness. Let’s go back to what we just dismissed. Let me tell you something you’ve never seen before: 2014. If the ball was full in a match against Jimmy Anderson in England, you would have seen that surface where he was driving. But now the problem has become so serious that now every bowler cares about length. 5th time without All you have to do is bowl from the sixth line.
“Virat Kohli’s problem is compounded where length doesn’t really matter. He still goes for the ball in that channel whether it’s short or full. Previously, only full deliveries were possible for him and the length he managed was short. The ball has caused problems, but now he is just a bowler and anyone who has to bowl outside will sympathize with him because he lacks options to score runs, Manjrekar told the Star.
Virat struggled to score runs in the ongoing series as he scored 184 runs from eight outings at an average of 26.28.
On the opening day of the fifth and final Test, India were bowled out for 185 and Rishabh Pant (40) became the team’s top scorer.
Australia lost Usman Khawaja off the last ball of the day to end the match at 9-1.
