India star batter Virat Kohli continued his woeful form in Test cricket during the third match of the Border-Gavaskar series at The Gabba. The 36-year-old was dismissed for just 3 runs by pacer Josh Hazlewood on the third day of the Test match.
Kohli once again went chasing for a wide delivery and ended up handing wicketkeeper Alex Carey a simple catch. Legendary India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar heavily criticized Kohli after the dismissal, saying that there was no need for the batter to play that shot as the ball was pitched on the ‘seventh, eighth stump’.
“If it was on the fourth stump I could understand. This was wide, on the seventh, eighth stump, you could say. There’s no need to play that,” Gavaskar said on Channel 7.
Gavaskar also stated that Kohli needed to show patience as India had already lost both Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill within the first 3 overs of their innings.
“He’d be very, very disappointed, he’d be very upset with that. Even before Rishabh Pant faced a ball, the rain started to come down and the covers have come on. If Kohli had shown a bit of patience he could be not out with KL Rahul,” Gavaskar said.
Kohli once again lost his wicket while trying to play a drive on a delivery which was bowled well outside his off-stump. This problem has been going on with Kohli since the start of his career and it comes back to haunt him time after time again.
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