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India vs Australia: Virat Kohli was concerned in a heated alternate with Sam Konstas© AFP
Virat Kohli’s efficiency Down Below within the not too long ago concluded Border Gavaskar Trophy left extra questions than solutions. He scored simply 190 runs in 9 innings at a median of 23.75. He started with a ton however his efficiency with the bat went downhill from there on. His tendency to poke at supply transferring outdoors the off-stump led to his downfall many times. Australia exploited that weak spot and acquired the higher of him. All this left a giant query mark on his Check future. He was additionally concerned in on-field skirmishes with the rival camp.
He was concerned in a shoulder-barging incidents with Sam Konstas and in addition tried to rile up Australian crowd in Sydney. Sunil Gavaskar felt that such acts solely added extra strain on different Indian stars.
“Kohli must understand that whatever he does to react to the crowd actually puts more pressure on his teammates, who also then become targets of the spectators,” Gavaskar wrote in his column for the Sydney Morning Herald.
“What Kohli did with the shoulder bump is simply not cricket. Indians are not shy to retaliate if provoked, but here the provocation was simply not there. The one thing that players learn with experience is that it’s futile to try and get back at the crowds, who have come to have a good time, so booing players is never personal but just a way to entertain themselves. To react to that doesn’t do the player any good and, in fact, does more harm.”
Kohli scored just one ton within the Australia sequence and Gavaskar raised query marks on his efficiency. “With his continued failures to avoid nibbling at the deliveries around the off-stump, he failed to make the contribution that could have boosted the total. The skipper, Rohit Sharma, was out of his depth, and having taken the brave decision to step aside because of his form, he has also raised big questions about his future in Test cricket.”
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