Indian great Sunil Gavaskar said nothing about Virat Kohli after the veteran batter once again fell to the outside off-stump trap in the first innings of the Gabba test. After successive dismissals in the Perth and Adelaide tests, this was the third consecutive time Kohli got dismissed similarly.
He repeated the same at Brisbane when Kohli got out while chasing a wide delivery outside off from Josh Hazelwood. Pacers worldwide are aware of Kohli’s long-standing issue of poking at deliveries outside the off-stump.
With India’s innings, which consisted of only a few overs, four of India’s vital wickets fell as stumps were called after India struggled at 51/4, with KL Rahul and skipper Rohit Sharma on the crease.
Gavaskar remarked on King Kohli as ‘impatient.’
Sunil Gavaskar opined earlier that Virat Kohli has been very impatient in the middle order, especially with much responsibility coming on the veteran batter after youngsters Yashasvi Jaiswal or Shubman Gill fail to capitalize or give India a lead early on.
“If it was on the fourth stump I could understand,” Gavaskar told Channel 7. “This was wide, on the seventh, eighth stump, you could say. There’s no need to play that,” he added.
Kohli, who was troubled with form, seemed to have broken the shackles at Perth when the batter scored his long-awaited 30th test hundred in the second innings of the first test. However, since then the batter has not even reached a double-digit score in the two innings of the Adelaide test or the first inning at the Gabba.
