Virat Kohli Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024: Virat Kohli’s bad phase in Test matches shows no signs of ending. Even in the first Test against Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024, Virat was out after scoring just 5 runs. This year he has scored only 255 runs in 13 innings and his absence has become a matter of great concern for Team India. Meanwhile, Rishabh Pant has emerged as a star cricketer for India. He came under very difficult circumstances and played an important inning of 35 runs. Pant has started playing such a character, which Virat Kohli used to play once upon a time.
Rishabh Pant is better than Virat Kohli!
Rishabh Pant played this inning of 37 runs in the Perth Test at a time when India had lost 3 wickets at the score of just 32 runs. He remained at the crease for 78 balls and while scoring 37 runs, he also hit three fours and a six. This is not the first time that Pant has rescued Team India from trouble. In the final match of the 2020-2021 Border Gavaskar Trophy, he played an inning of 89 runs at the Gabba ground to help India win the series 2-1. The 97 runs scored on the SCG ground can probably be called the best innings of Pant’s career so far.
From 2018 to 2024, Rishabh Pant has scored runs at an average of 63.40 on Australian soil. It may not be right to compare him with Virat Kohli right now, but it is certain that Pant has set out on a path where he can destroy many of Kohli’s records very soon.
Virat Kohli’s statistics in Australia
Virat Kohli has played 13 Test matches so far in Australia, in which he has 1,352 runs in 13 innings. His average in Australia is 54.08 and he has also scored 6 centuries and four fifties in the difficult conditions of Australia. In terms of average, Pant looks much better than Kohli.
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