'He is struggling now' - Twitterati worried with Virat Kohli's yet another failure against England
Kohli has now gone 50 international innings without a ton in international cricket.
Team India has started the third Test against England at Headingley in the worst possible manner. Their skipper Virat Kohli finally managed to win the toss and opted to bat on a sunny morning which seemed best batting conditions. But the visitors have given away the advantage not respecting the bowlers in the first hour of the opening session.
KL Rahul and Cheteshwar Pujara got out playing the delivery outside the off-stump and it was no different from their captain Virat Kohli either. His barren run of form continued as well as the 32-year-old has now gone a whopping 50 innings without a century in international cricket.
Kohli came in to bat with India reeling at 4/2 and needed to stitch a partnership in order to take his team to the safe shores. As always, he looked confident driving a couple of balls nicely but then the captain chose the wrong delivery to unleash his full-fledged drive. The red cherry came out of James Anderson’s hands nicely, landed on a length and jagged away ever so slightly to take a thick edge of Kohli’s bat .
Needless to say, a vociferous celebration followed from England and the home crowd as they had got the big fish. Virat Kohli scored only 7 runs off 17 balls to leave his team struggling at 21/3 in the first hour of the Test.
James Anderson – Kohli’s nemesis
James Anderson has continued to win his battle with Virat Kohli after not being able to dismiss him in the 2018 tour. The veteran pacer was all over him in 2014 when he had managed to send back Kohli as many as five times during the five-match series. However, the Indian captain came back well in 2018 scoring truckloads of runs but his vulnerability outside the off-stump has come back to haunt him it seems.
The 39-year-old is clearly exploiting Kohli’s weakness and at the moment and the latter has no answers to it. Even as the poor run continued for Virat in whites, the fans were left numb and they weren’t happy with their favourite player at all.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
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