Delhi: Virat Kohli once again got out in the Sydney Test while touching the ball going outside the off stump. This time he was dismissed by Scott Boland. Virat has become the victim of bowling for the fourth time in Test cricket. The special thing is that both Kohli and England’s Joe Root have been dismissed by Bowland four times each in Tests so far.
Boland told the strategy
After the match, Scott Boland, while talking to Fox Cricket, explained the strategy to dismiss Kohli. He said, “We have made a special plan to bowl against Kohli. He leaves a lot of balls in the beginning, but when he starts to settle down, he plays outside balls. In such a situation, we make a slight change in the line and bowl the ball closer to the fifth stump. This strategy is working.”
Kohli’s performance on Australia tour
Virat Kohli has been out on balls going outside the off stump seven times in eight innings so far on this tour. Josh Hazlewood sent him to the pavilion in the first innings of the Perth Test. Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland took his wicket in Adelaide. Hazlewood again dismissed him in Brisbane. Even in Melbourne, Boland and Starc made Kohli their victim, now in the Sydney Test, Boland once again dismissed him.
On this tour, Kohli scored an unbeaten 100 runs in the second innings of the Perth Test, which is his best score so far. Apart from this, he scored 36 runs in the first innings of Melbourne Test, but in the remaining four innings he could not even cross double figures.
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