New Delhi: Indian Skipper Virat Kohli has not been usually for some time.
His last international ton came in November 2019 and, since then, the 32-year-old has some reasonable success in white ball cricket but consistency, or a big score, has avoided it.
However, the former Chairman of the BCCI Selectors MSK Prasad believed that “only a matter of time before Kohli broke Jinx”.
So far, Kohli has scored 218 running in seven innings, an average of 31.14.
The score in the ongoing series is: 0, DNB, 42, 20, 7, 55, 50, 44.
“Why did you say that he (Kohli) was struggling? I mean he didn’t turn it into hundreds? That’s all we all know and that Really strange and unfortunate.
But as soon as he loses and decides that Jinx and starts getting hundreds, he will be a superstar that we all know in the last or more decade.
He is someone who has 70 centuries (27 in cricket test and 43 in One International Day), “said MSK Prasad to IANs.
“It is unfortunate that the fifties and the sixties are not converted into hundreds.
But he is still running.” Asked about his views on the shape of Vice-Captain Ajinkya Rahana, MSK Prasad said, “It’s a little disappointing, but we all trust him.” Rahane has aggregated 109 in seven innings in this series so far with half a solitary century.
Since the beginning of 2020, Rahane averaged 24.76 in the test, which was the lowest among 35 international players with 500-plus run.
In this period, he only submitted a century, along with two years and fifts, in 27 innings.
“Yes, it is unfortunate that the consistency factor is lost in the roanya.
It is difficult but now when we play a series that is so important, I think people like Cheteshwar Pujara and Rahane are the key to the middle order and every decision must be taken, must be taken only After the series settlement in the sense? I know Hanuma Vihari, who has done it well for the nation every time he was given the opportunity, was waiting on the wing.
But a little unfortunate is that Ajinkya? Because when we go abroad, we hope Pujara and Rahane plays a role Solid in the middle, “said the former Chief of Voters.
“Pujara came to the terms and I hope that the rokee will enter the flow now, maybe in the last test match.
He has gotten a hundred in Australia when nothing is on the team and we all trust him especially when we play at Overseas.
But this time it was rather disappointing.
I hope he scored the last test because he always scored because it was hardened by the condition of the country.
“Prasad further committed praise at Indian Batsman Rohit Sharma for the hundreds of” extraordinary “in the oval.
“When we made it open especially after the World Cup, his performance had been very good in white ball cricket so we thought that why he could not be given the opportunity in the red ball cricket and in the process, because at that time we had a setter that settled in the agrawal , then Prithvi Shaw was tried and Shubman Gill was tried, so for several reasons, unfortunately Prithvi Shaw lost the way when we thought we had to give him a chance.
“We offered an opening.
Test and he accepted it.
Today that has resulted in this kind of innings.
Get a hundred in England against England amazing.
I am very happy for Rohit, “he added.