Virat Kohli’s visible struggle against left arm spin bowlers.
All the fans expected a big innings with the bat from the Indian team’s veteran player Virat Kohli on the second day of the Pune Test match, but he returned to the pavilion after scoring just one run. Pune’s pitch has been helping the spin bowlers a lot since day one, so even though it may not be easy for the batsmen to play here, they can still be faced with the right technique. Kohli, who had scored 70 runs with the bat in the second innings of Team India in the Bangalore Test match, could not succeed in showing wonders in the Pune Test match. Kohli’s record against left-arm spin bowlers in the last few years has been very poor, which clearly shows that solving this problem is proving to be no less than an inexplicable puzzle for Kohli.
Kohli has been struggling like this in the last three years
Virat Kohli scored 619 runs against left-arm spin bowlers in 36 innings of Test matches played at home from 2012 to 2020 and was out only 5 times. Kohli’s average with the bat during this period was 123.8. Since 2021, Virat Kohli’s average in 21 innings against left-arm spin bowlers in Test matches played at home has been 28.78, in which he has lost his wicket 9 times. If we look at Kohli’s record against spin bowlers at home since 2021, it has also been quite poor. Looking at Kohli’s statistics, it can be clearly understood that facing the spinners has proved to be a very tough challenge for him.
Kohli was out against spinners 19 times out of 22 innings.
While Virat Kohli managed to score a total of 1866 runs at an average of 74.64 against spin bowlers in 54 innings of Test matches played at home from 2012 to 2021, his wicket was taken 25 times by spin bowlers during this period. Whereas from the year 2021 till now, Kohli has managed to score only 573 runs against spinners in 22 innings of Test matches played at home, while he has been out 19 times against spin bowlers, in which his average was only 30.2. Is.
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