Irfan Pathan On Virat Kohli Off Stump Ball Dismissal: Virat Kohli made the same mistake again and again in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Indian batsmen have been out on off-stump balls several times in the series. Even in the first innings of the last Test of the series being played in Sydney, Kohli lost his wicket on an off stump ball, after which former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan took his class. Pathan said that Kohli is making the same mistake again and again.
Irfan Pathan, doing Hindi commentary on Star Sports, said on Kohli’s wicket, “Such a great player is making the same mistake again and again. It is always said that the distance between two mistakes should be widened. Big players do the same.” But he did not do this. Nearly 6 dismissals in this series were outside the off stump, whether playing length forward or length behind, while driving on the up.
Further, on the dismissal in the Sydney Test, Irfan Pathan said, “Even today, he could have left the length, leave alone the line. It is just a matter of discipline. All these people compare Virat Kohli like the great Sachin Tendulkar. One should leave the ball outside the off stump, one should show discipline, but Sachin Tendulkar had a lot of range, square cut, upper cut, but it is not that Virat never played those cuts. But they don’t want to take it out. That’s why they go for drives on the sixth and seventh stumps and then get out.
Kohli returned to the pavilion cheaply
Let us tell you that in the Sydney Test, Team India won the toss and decided to bat. Virat Kohli could not do much in the first innings. Kohli faced 69 balls, in which he scored 17 runs without hitting any boundary.
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