Indian national cricket team batsman Virat Kohli is making sure to give it his all to prepare for the fourth match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. The Boxing Day Test match between the teams will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne from December 26.
Virat Kohli has come under serious scrutiny after his string of low scores in the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The batsman, after scoring a century in the first match of the series in Perth, was not at his best and struggled to get going in the last two games.
Virat Kohli has reached deliveries outside the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.
Kohli, since the last two games, has been hitting deliveries outside off. The leading batsman has struggled to get going and his poor approach to outside balls has led to his downfall in the last two matches in Adelaide and the Gabba.
In the pink-ball Test at Adelaide Oval, he bowled Starc and then Josh Hazlewood's replacement Scott Boland. In the Gabba Test, he drove the ball to cover against Hazlewood. This saw him widely criticized for his approach.
However, to counter the threat of off-stump balls, Virat Kohli makes sure he goes all out. In the training session on Tuesday (December 24), his main focus was on these balls as he looked to negotiate the threat ahead of the MCG Test.
Kohli asked pacers Harshit Rana and Prasidh Krishna to bowl him outside off-stump. The batsman was also seen asking the pacers to bowl fast as he complimented them for playing well and practiced his shoulder arm so that the bowler could not find an edge even if there was extra bounce.
Virat Kohli asks Harshit Rana and Prasidh Krishna to bowl him off-stump into the nets
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Virat Kohli has a great track record at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
Kohli in the last 4 innings scored just 26 runs as the Australian pacers managed to trouble him in the same channel. The lead batsman, however, has worked very hard and it will not be a surprise if he ends up playing a big knock in the next match of the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Virat Kohli has a great track record at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The batsman scored 316 runs from six innings at an average of 52.66. During his last visit, he scored 82 runs in the first innings, followed by a four-ball duck in the second innings.
The Indian team has a good record at the MCG in recent times. They have not lost a Test at the venue since 2011. The Rohit Sharma-led side would be keen to continue the same record and win the match to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
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