Top 5 current batsmen and their weaknesses

2. Virat Kohli – Outside off-stump deliveries

Virat Kohli is the best batsman in the world across the formats. In the ODIs, he is simply invincible it seems. Also, in Tests, a set Virat Kohli is almost impossible to get out. Give him the toughest conditions and he will come up trumps. So what is his weakness? Now, everyone knows that he is vulnerable to the line outside the off-stump. James Anderson exploited it to the hilt during India’s England tour in 2014.

Kohli himself admits that it was the lowest point of his career. But with sheer hardwork, he found an alternative to score runs in 2018 England tour and emerged as the highest run-scorer with almost 600 runs in a series where almost every other batsman struggled. Then how one would get Kohli out?

Simple. Virat Kohli is the most vulnerable during the early part of his innings. As a bowler, one has to keep bowling in that channel of uncertainty and wait for him to drive the ball. It would need to some consistent bowling in the same area like how New Zealand did in the recent series against India. Kohli faced 7, 43, 15 and 30 deliveries during the four innings against the Kiwis and it took sustained pressure and consistent bowling to get him out early every time.