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Virat Kohli’s batting average in Test is third lowest among players with 9,000 runs | Cricket News

Virat Kohli’s batting average in Test is third lowest among players with 9,000 runs | Cricket News

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Virat Kohli has seen a dip in his form over the past few years. Virat Kohli’s Test average currently stands at 47.49, with 9,166 runs to his name. To put into perspective, Kohli’s Test average in 2019 was constantly in the mid-fifties, the highest being 55.10, and was once the only batsman to have an average of 50 or above in all three formats. For eight years, Kohli’s average has not gone below 47.5, and now, his batting average is third lowest amongst the players that have scored 9000 in Tests, and the only one of the fab four to have a Test average below 50. His second innings in Perth gave glimpses of a potential comeback of the former Indian captain, as he always brings his A-game Down Under in the Border Gavaskar Trophy. But other than the innings that marked his 81st international century in Perth, he has produced rather disappointing scores, (5,7,11,3). Virat Kohli’s struggles to deliveries outside the off-stump continued with his dismissal at Gabba on Monday. Kohli looked a little …

Kookaburra gets less venomous after 30th over: it should be the Indian top order’s first target | Cricket News

Kookaburra gets less venomous after 30th over: it should be the Indian top order’s first target | Cricket News

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The grand Australian batting plan when playing at home with the Kookaburra is for the top order to gobble up at least the first 180 deliveries, so their opponents’ known-nemesis Travis Head can walk in around the 30th over mark – not earlier. Fox Cricket wrote, “According to the Australians, batting becomes easier after 30 overs, which has been earmarked as the ideal time for the likes of Head and Mitchell Marsh to pounce on a fatiguing opponent….Smith and Head pinpointed the 30-over mark as their sweet spot, the ideal time to start their innings.” Head’s last 8 centuries have all resulted in Australia wins, and they haven’t won a Test since 2018 if he isn’t a part of the team. But pivotal to this plan at home is negotiating the new Kookaburra ball, that debuted in 2021, and has been a headache for most batsmen, with Fox noting that its also led to “shorter Test matches and lower batting averages.” Dubbing it Head’s Goldilocks’ period, Fox wrote that when the leftie walked in, in …

In gloomy Brisbane, it rains (Indian) wickets

In gloomy Brisbane, it rains (Indian) wickets

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Imagine being Jasprit Bumrah when the Indian top-order combusted spontaneously on arrival at the crease. Bumrah must have barely changed and sat in the dressing room when he must have seen his batsmen implode. He had bowled his heart out, racked his brains and tired out his body to get six hard-earned wickets. In eight balls, three Indians fell to soft dismissals. Two of them, Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill, chasing well-outside off deliveries, and the other, Yashasvi Jaiswal, flicking a ball on the legs to waiting palms. The Australian bowlers didn’t have to tire their bodies or minds, just hurled outside off and ran on from their follow-through to celebrate with their mates. Chasing 445, India were 22 for 3 at one stage before rain and later bad light terminated play at 51 for 4. Someone should just replay the tape of Jasprit Bumrah’s talk at the media interaction to the batsmen. Not that he said anything about them, or even played the blame game about the other bowlers, but he listed out the …

Michael Vaughan takes a sly dig at Yashasvi Jaiswal’s dismissal: ‘In practice it was perfect’ | Cricket News

Michael Vaughan takes a sly dig at Yashasvi Jaiswal’s dismissal: ‘In practice it was perfect’ | Cricket News

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During the warm-up, while facing a few throw downs before the start of the innings, Yashasvi Jaiswal flicked one straight towards the Australian team huddle on Day 3 of the third Test on Monday. Little did he know it would be that very shot that would cause his dismissal. During the warm-up, one of the Indian coaching staff was helping Jaiswal with the routine throw downs, Jaiswal flicked it elegantly and the ball went straight towards the Australian huddle, who were preparing to enter the field at the sidelines. The ball hit the Cricket Australia’s cameraman on his legs, leaving the hosts a little riled up, but the Jaiswal quickly to apologised. “That’s one way of getting ahead of the game… he’s just trying to take out Mitchell Starc before the game starts,” Michael Vaughan said. The first ball of the innings saw Jaiswal catch an edge off Mitchell Starc’s fuller length delivery that swung away from the batsman, but the ball raced towards the boundary going through the middle of fourth slip and gully. …

two 152s, three 0 (1)s, and a 92

two 152s, three 0 (1)s, and a 92

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IND vs AUS: Mamma Mia! Here he goes again at the Gabba. Travis Head’s 152 at the Gabba on Day 2 to once again puncture Indian plans and overshadow Jasprit Bumrah fifer, fit right into his general Test outings at Brisbane. The joke here runs that if he’s allowed to get off the mark, Head punishes opponents plenty. His sequence reads 84 (SL), 24 (Pak), 152 (Eng), DNB (Eng), 92 (SA), 0 (SA), 0 (WI), 0 (WI), and now 152 (Ind). Head had started at Brisbane with 84 in 2019 against Sri Lanka, his highest score till then. He boasts of a 152 against England in 2021. Head’s last 6 Test scoring figures at Gabba now read 152, 92, 0, 0, 0, 152. This includes a diamond pair, among three first-ball golden ducks as well as a nervous 92 besides the 152 he put the Poms through. He averages a chunky 66 at the venue, and overall 63 at Gabba. The duck tales panned out against West Indies and South Africa. But things weren’t always …