The first day of the Bengaluru Test was washed away by rain, but on the second day, Indian batsmen’s hopes were washed away by the New Zealand Bowlers. Team India was able to make only 46 runs in an innings with the exchange of all ten wickets. The visitors are ruling the home team ground in Bengaluru. Virat Kohli came to bat at number 3 and back to the pavilion with a duck. Virat Kohli’s recent performance in Test cricket is not so special. Specially at number three; in that position he failed before as well. So what did Virat wrong against New Zealand?
Talking about active players, Virat Kohli has 38 ducks in international cricket. Along with him, New Zealand fast bowler Tim Southee has also been dismissed on duck 38 times. Rohit Sharma has also been out on zero 33 times.
Have said this before will say it again. Virat has compounded his problems by wanting to be on the front foot to every ball. No matter the length. Today’s dismissal ball could have been comfortably tackled off the back foot. #INDvNZ
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) October 17, 2024
“Have said this before will say it again. Virat has compounded his problems by wanting to be on the front foot to every ball. No matter the length. Today’s dismissal ball could have been comfortably tackled off the back foot,” Manjrekar wrote on his official ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) handle.
Rohit Sharma-led Indian team was all out for only 46 runs in the first innings at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Thursday against New Zealand. First day of the match washed out due to rain. After this, on the second day, Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bat first, but the host ten batsmen knelt down in front of New Zealand’s three fast bowlers. Five batsmen of the team India back to pavilion without scoring a run. Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja returned to the pavilion after being dismissed for zero.