King fell where he stood..!? Got out outside off stump..!?

In the 2nd innings of the last Test match against australia, virat kohli lost his wicket to a ball bowled outside the stumps for 6 runs. Due to this, fans have started criticizing virat kohli severely, demanding that he retire. virat kohli started dominating international cricket from the 2014 Test series in Australia. Even england legends were amazed by Virat Kohli's batting technique against the Australian fast bowlers. But virat kohli is standing unarmed on the same ground from where he started dominating as the uncrowned king of cricket. The same batting technique that gave him success has now given him trouble. virat kohli has been dismissed for outside off stump in all 9 innings of the 5 Test matches against Australia.
On the 2nd day of the final Test match being played in Sydney, australia was all out for 181 runs. After this, the Jaiswal-KL rahul partnership added 42 runs for the first wicket. KL rahul was dismissed for 13 runs and jaiswal followed by 22 runs. After this, the eagerly awaited virat kohli entered the field. It was seen that this would be the last innings for virat kohli on Australian soil. This was expected to revive the indian team and play a brilliant innings. But when they had scored 6 runs, virat kohli lost his wicket to an outside-of-stump line ball bowled by Scott Boland. virat kohli has lost his wicket 5 times to Boland balls in this Test series alone.

This time, the action replay showed how he missed the first ball of the first innings by giving a catch to Steve Smith. But this time steve smith did not miss the catch. Following this, virat kohli walked towards the pavilion lamenting. virat kohli has scored only 190 runs in a total of 9 innings in this Test series. After this, there have been voices that the indian team should give a chance to the young players as they have 5 months to play the next Test series. Because the fans have also lost hope that virat kohli will recover from his technical problem. Fans are wondering what is the reason behind virat kohli repeatedly taking the middle and off stump cards, even when he has trouble facing balls bowled outside the off stump line.
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Sowmiya Sriram

04/01/2025 11:59 AM