Ricky Ponting on Virat Kohli: The first match of the five-match Test series between India and Australia will be played in Perth on November 22. To this end, the lineups of both teams have been announced. India has won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia for the last four times. But the road has not been easy for the Indian team this time around. Superstar batsman Virat Kohli is out of form and unable to get a match to his name. Now, former Australia batsman Ricky Ponting has backed Kohli.
Kohli is struggling with poor form
Virat Kohli has scored just 93 runs in his last six Test innings. The Indian team had to pay the price for their poor form and lost to New Zealand in the Test match. I have also spoken about Virat before,” former Australia captain Ricky Ponting told the ICC. You can’t judge great players. There is no doubt that he is a great cricketer. He loved playing against Australia. His record in Australia was also very good. He can change everything in this series. I won’t be surprised if Virat starts scoring runs from the first game.
Ricky Ponting Ponting said I read a statistic about Virat. He is said to have scored just two Test hundreds in the last five years. This doesn’t seem right, but if it were, it would be cause for concern. There won’t be any top international cricketer in the world who scores just two Test hundreds in five years. Regarding the defeat against New Zealand, he said the Indian batsmen were not good with the spin ball.
Enters top 10 in ICC Test rankings
He said that Indian batsmen nowadays seem to be unable to hit the spin ball like Indian batsmen used to do. Maybe India’s pitching is more conducive to fast bowlers now. Virat has averaged 22.72 in six Tests since the start of the year, his lowest average since his debut in 2011. He has dropped out of the top 20 in the ICC Test rankings for the first time in a decade.
(Enter: PTI)
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