For this once, it seems that Virat Kohli doesn’t care if the camera is with him.
He just stood there in front of the locker room door, shook his head, glancing once, casually, on the television screen and then hanging his head with disappointment.
A few minutes later he still did it, still shook his head, could not make peace with the fact that he had just been dismissed cheaply, again, the first ball after lunch.
He has crashed towards the ball outside of Marco Jansen and Sneed.
Again.
He has looked good with a fold in a very difficult punch condition, then throw it away by running playing with a bad shot selection.
Again.
The way Kohli’s dismissal is now the biggest talk point in Indian cricket but it seems that the championship batsman cannot do anything.
Stay 32-ball Kohli for 18 walked ended in the same way as the first innings, other loose wafts on a ball on the fifth or sixth stump that resulted in other advantages.
The story was the same in the first round in Centurion.
And the same on England at the beginning of the year.
Even before Kohli came out, the former Captain Sunil Gavascar had part of the morning session that discussed Kohli’s dismissal in detail.
“He has a back-and-cross movement that leads off-stump, not towards the middle,” explained Gavaskar.
“And then the front foot goes further towards the off-stump.
This is why he tends to encourage shipping.
Of course, he has scored nearly 8000 tests running with this method.” Former Indian batter coach Sanjay Bangar, who in the first round leaned Kohli’s needs To bring his back legs more often, also weigh on this problem.
“In 2018 he wants to practice in several traces of seaming in a dewy condition, to simulate conditions in the UK.” We draw an imaginary box and he tried not to take his hand from the box.
So he played under his eyes, close to his body.
He would not make a mistake by taking his hand out of the box, “Bangar said.
However, Kohli seems to have fallen back to the habit and old pattern.” In the years of his formation, he scored a lot of things on which side so Bowlers began the fifth stump bowl, The sixth stump line.
The type of pitch that was raised in Delhi also made him a forward-foot player, “Bangar said.
When the unavoidable dismissal happened, Gavaskar seemed not to shop.” See how far the ball is, he can leave him alone.
Because he was mostly round players, bats had an angle that took it out.
“Onus is now in Kohli to come up with medicine, because the bowler is now awakened to fail this.
On 33, the Indian test captain will be expected to be at the top of the form of batting.
Instead, the average test has sunk under 30 for the past two years.
Kohli On average 19.33 in three tests in 2020 and 28.21 in 11 tests this year.
The average has fallen to 50.34, the lowest in his career.
He is now fourth in the Indian captain’s list with the worst show in the calendar year .
This is a Cricketer who has repeatedly recroses himself to score a big goal.
Maybe it’s time for one more tweak.
Like the Gavascar said, “(sometimes) you need to make a little, a little change based on your dismissal mode.”