All posts tagged: Virat Kohli dismissal

India vs England: An in-form Shreyas Iyer makes India’s middle order much stronger for Champions Trophy | Cricket News

India vs England: An in-form Shreyas Iyer makes India’s middle order much stronger for Champions Trophy | Cricket News

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There was for all purposes just one real fretful moment for India in England’s chase of a 357-run target in the third ODI in Ahmedabad. In six overs, England had blurred away to 60 without loss, and the left-handed dasher Ben Duckett was already on 34. It’s when India’s captain Rohit Sharma intervened. Duckett had been limping from the start, with a groin niggle, but crash-landing the ball to all parts with his stand-and-deliver routine. After he smashed four consecutive seam-up balls from Arshdeep Singh, Rohit had enough at mid-off. With his characteristic shrug of disdain, he called the attention of Arshdeep, gesturing to his thigh. The point was made: that Duckett is struggling with a groin injury that hampers his movement and balls should be crafted keeping that in mind. Not offer balls that he can just stand and whack. Arshdeep got the message and slipped in a slower ball off the final ball of that over. A nod of approval came from Rohit. Arshdeep started his next over as well with a slower …

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant and the three shots that sunk India at MCG | Cricket News

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant and the three shots that sunk India at MCG | Cricket News

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“Aaj-ka or pehle waala?” (Today’s or the previous one?) Rohit Sharma queried when a question was asked about Rishabh Pant’s shot in the final session on the final day that changed the game, even as India plunged to a 184-run defeat to Australia, bundled for 155 chasing 339 in the fourth innings at Melbourne. Rohit would then talk about how Pant, who had pulled a short ball from the irregular spinner Travis Head down the throat of the long-on fielder, has to “understand what is required from him, more than anyone else telling him … what is the risk percentage? He has to figure that out. Do you want to let the opposition back into the game?” Perfectly valid observations, only that two other people in the team need to ask those questions to themselves: Rohit himself and Virat Kohli. Three shots, three mental errors, turned the game around as India let slip a draw from their hands and allowed Australia to wrap a stunning win in front of a spellbound crowd that hung on …

Are there similarities between Sachin Tendulkar’s 2011 tour of Australia and Virat Kohli’s current struggles in 2024? | Cricket News

Are there similarities between Sachin Tendulkar’s 2011 tour of Australia and Virat Kohli’s current struggles in 2024? | Cricket News

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Where do we start about the few minutes of madness when Indians drove themselves crazy? Perhaps best to start with Virat Kohli, who should have known better. But first a word about the simplest possible bowling plan deployed against them by the Australians. Three slips, two gullies, a mid-off – men packed behind the stumps and large vacant spaces under the gaze of the batsmen. And the line of bowling well outside off stump. Surely, this can’t work, Indians aren’t that bad? Remarkably, India were 22 for 3 by lunch. Was it their desire to show intent? Was it just the ego? Was it mental laxness? On social media, former batsman Sanjay Manjrekar would tweet about the role of the batting coach in the team. That’s a fair point in itself in the larger scheme of things with this batting unit, but one doesn’t need a coach to tell anyone, least of all Kohli, to go chasing wide deliveries. Or Shubman Gill for that matter. It’s also been said that this 2024 series has a …

Why Day One in Perth is one of the greatest opening duels in the BGT history | Cricket News

Why Day One in Perth is one of the greatest opening duels in the BGT history | Cricket News

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Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT): Buckle your seatbelts and get ready for a summer of bowlers. On an utterly stunning opening day at Perth, the batsmen from both teams wobbled along at a below-par standard to make the Test match, and the series, rather interesting. When India were shot out for 150, it seemed like a nasty rewind to the summers of 90’s. Instead, jaws dropped at the Optus Stadium in admiration and respect at the startling fightback, led by the captain Jasprit Bumrah and the newcomer Harshit Rana, ably supported by Mohammad Siraj to leave Australia reeling at 67 for 7 at stumps. It’s 2024, but the fightback had the feel of the 2021 series during the pandemic. Bumrah’s quality is known, but Siraj has been off-colour in recent months and Rana was an unknown commodity. To do this if India had bowled first or had a huge score behind them would have been one thing but for them to crack open the series like this, after being almost shoved out of the game by …

IND vs NZ: From Yashasvi Jaiswal’s ill-advised shot to Virat Kohli’s misjudged run, how fans were left stunned at Wankhede | Cricket News

IND vs NZ: From Yashasvi Jaiswal’s ill-advised shot to Virat Kohli’s misjudged run, how fans were left stunned at Wankhede | Cricket News

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Dusk brought drama to the Wankhede Stadium. The evening was unfolding smoothly for India—New Zealand bowled out, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill batting without ado—when the script turned awry, leaving the contest on a knife edge. In the space of 10 wild minutes, Jaiswal reverse swept to his doom, the night watchman Mohammed Siraj survived a lone ball, miserably burned a review and Virat Kohli ran himself out for a non-existent single, the slinging, sniper-eyed throw of Matt Henry stranding him despite a full-stretch dive. From 78/1, India stumbled to 86/4 in 11 balls. The pendulum swing shocked the spectators. Even after the players retreated to the dressing room, they lingered on in disbelief, before they headed to the exit doors. Three favourites of theirs had returned to the pavilion. Even Ravindra Jadeja, when asked about the meltdown, joked that he didn’t have the time to process it. There was a farcical nature to it. Until that moment, Jaiswal was raising the spirit of the crowd, batting with the maturity of a veteran, dousing every …

Sanjay Manjrekar on Virat Kohli’s dismissal

Sanjay Manjrekar on Virat Kohli’s dismissal

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Virat Kohli was dismissed for one run in the second Test against New Zealand in Pune on Friday in very unconventional fashion. Trying to slap a full toss from Mitchell Santner across the line, Kohli missed the ball’s trajectory completely and it slammed into the stumps. Kohli’s stint in the middle had lasted just nine balls. The dismissal, while absurd for the prolific India batter, also highlighted his struggles against spin on Asian conditions. Kohli has been dismissed 21 times in 26 innings against spinners in Asia in the past three years, with an average of 28. Of these, 10 dismissals have been to left-arm orthodox bowlers, against whom he averages 27.10. Understandably, Kohli walked off the ground seething after his soft dismissal. “Virat will know himself that he has just played the worst shot of his career to get out,” tweeted former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar. “Got to feel for him (Kohli)… cause as always, he came out with solid and honest intent.” Former India coach Anil Kumble opined in an interview on JioCinema …

Virat Kohli bowled off a low full toss: an absurd moment that even he realised | Cricket News

Virat Kohli bowled off a low full toss: an absurd moment that even he realised | Cricket News

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Virat Kohli has been dismissed in a hundred different ways in his storied Test career. He would remember just a handful of them. But he would not forget how he got out in his 198th Test outing, in the bizarreness of the dismissal. Off a full toss, on a turner when preempting to slog sweep. He was just eventless eight balls into his shift when he pursued a shot that is not one of his staple, but nonetheless one that he executes fairly convincingly. But here he did. He was a trifle too early into his shot. Perhaps, he wanted to hit the pesky Mitchell Santner out of the attack. The left-arm spinner usually bowls flat and fast, and hence the slog sweep was a fairly bereft of risks. Or so he would have thought. But there are moments when cricketers, the best of them, fail to explain the cause and effect, when they simply can’t wrap around the pattern of the dismissal. This was one such case. It was simple—Kohli missed a straight, low …