The performance of senior players in Team India has raised questions for some time. At the top of this is star batsman Virat Kohli, who has been struggling to score runs continuously for the last 5 years. After failing miserably in the Test series against Bangladesh and New Zealand, Virat Kohli is expected to perform well in Australia but the start has not been good for him. The first day of the Perth Test was not good for Virat Kohli in any way, where neither he could do wonders with the bat nor could make any significant impact in the fielding.
Virat Kohli’s bat did not work again
This time there are big expectations from Virat Kohli, who is on his fifth Australia tour. This series is very important for him himself because questions are being raised about his career but Virat had a bad start on this tour of 55 days and 5 test series. His performance with the bat has been poor for the last several months but in Perth he failed in fielding also and put Team India in trouble.
First of all let’s talk about Virat’s batting. Team India came to bat first in Perth and what was feared happened. India’s top order faltered in front of the Australian pace attack. Team India had lost 4 wickets in the very first session, which included Virat Kohli. Kohli remained at the crease for only 12 balls and was out after scoring only 5 runs. Where it was expected that Virat would once again make a comeback after emerging from his poor form in Australia, but here exactly the opposite happened.
I have crossed my limits in fielding
Virat’s performance in batting has been poor for quite some time and hence perhaps this is not very surprising. But in fielding, high level performance has always been expected from Virat and he does so, but here he failed in this task also. Marnus Labuschagne was caught by Jasprit Bumrah in the third over of the Australian innings. It was a straight catch for Virat Kohli, who was posted at second slip, and he caught it but then in order to regain his balance, he suddenly released it. Everyone was surprised to see this.
then compensate like this
Even before dropping the catch, Virat failed to stop a ball at second slip and 4 runs were lost. Labuschagne came to the crease at that very moment. Although he could score only 2 runs, he remained at the crease for a long time and helped Australia build a partnership. In such a situation, when Labuschagne was out, Kohli seemed the happiest. However, Kohli later also took the catch of Usman Khawaja. Apart from this, Kohli also played a role in taking Australia’s first wicket. It was only on Kohli’s insistence that Bumrah took DRS and India was able to get the wicket of opener Nathan McSweeney.
