{"id":17825,"date":"2023-03-07T06:55:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T06:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/ind-vs-aus-for-kohli-i-have-said-that-over-and-over-former-australian-skipper-defends-virat-kohlis-poor-form-in-the-series\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T06:55:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T06:55:39","slug":"ind-vs-aus-for-kohli-i-have-said-that-over-and-over-former-australian-skipper-defends-virat-kohlis-poor-form-in-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/07\/ind-vs-aus-for-kohli-i-have-said-that-over-and-over-former-australian-skipper-defends-virat-kohlis-poor-form-in-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"IND VS AUS: For Kohli, I Have Said That Over And Over- Former Australian Skipper Defends Virat Kohli\u2019s Poor Form In The Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>India will be gearing up for the fourth and last test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy ( BGT) 2023, at Ahmedabad. The home side is leading the series by 2-1 against Australia, Men in Blue needs to win the last test match to qualify for the World Test Championship (WTC) final, whereas Aussies have reached WTC Final after avoiding the clean sweep in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Indian ace batter Virat Kohli has struggled in the BGT 2023 series with 111 runs in five innings. Former Australian skipper, Ricky Ponting came in the support of Kohli and said surfaces used in the series are bowler friendly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_510969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-510969\" style=\"width: 1061px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-510969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ricky Ponting and Virat Kohli. Image Credits: Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Ponting feels India should not be worried about Kohli-<\/h3>\n<p>\u201c<strong>For Kohli, I have said that over and over, champion players always find a way. He might be in a bit of a drought at the moment, and might not be scoring runs which we all expect him to score but he is a realist as well<\/strong>,\u201d said former Australian cricketer.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia tour of India 2023, all three tests ended on Day 3 on spin-friendly tracks. There has been only one century scored in the series and that was in the first innings of the first test match by Rohit Sharma, and apart from the former Indian skipper only two Indian batters have scored more runs than him in the BGT 2023, Indian skipper Rohit and Axar Patel with 207 and 185 runs respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>When you are a batsman and you are struggling and not scoring runs, you are pretty aware of that yourself. I am not concerned about this because I am confident he will bounce back<\/strong>,\u201d he further added.<\/p>\n<p>The Delhi-born cricketer has not scored a Test century since the one against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens in 2019. The right-handed batsman has also not managed to cross the 50-run mark since stepping down as captain in January last year. Since then, he has played 8 Tests and his highest score has been only 45.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I am not looking at anybody\u2019s form in the series because for batters it has been an absolute nightmare. Australia have done a remarkable job by turning around those first two Test matches and coming back to win the third. We all know batting has been so incredibly difficult<\/strong>,\u201d said Ponting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delhi done. Two in a row. \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3\u2705 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/99YH24DD5H\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/99YH24DD5H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli\/status\/1627237922054488064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the Delhi Test match, Kohli scripted history by becoming the fastest player to complete 25,000 international runs, becoming only the sixth batter to touch the landmark and the fastest cricketer to do so. Indian star batter broke Virender Sehwag\u2019s record at his home ground, while the former Indian opener scored 1738 runs in BGT. Kohli surpassed Sehwag\u2019s run tally by scoring 64 runs in the second test match of BGT 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>And it has not been because of the turn, but also the uneven bounce which makes you lose trust in the wicket and if that happens you are guessing all the time which makes batting really difficult<\/strong>,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Kohli is known for comebacks, which we have seen in the past with a recent example of his tremendous performance in limited-overs cricket. So, he will be looking to turn things around when India takes on Australia in the fourth and final Test. The match is scheduled to be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad from March 9.<\/p>\n<p>Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportzwiki.com\/cricket\/ind-vs-aus-bcci-is-looking-to-challenge-the-icc-match-referee-decision-on-pitch-in-third-test-of-border-gavaskar-trophy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IND vs AUS: BCCI Is Looking To Challenge The ICC Match Referee Decision On Pitch In Third Test Of Border Gavaskar Trophy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportzwiki.com\/cricket\/ind-vs-aus-for-kohli-i-have-said-that-over-and-over-former-australian-skipper-defends-virat-kohlis-poor-form-in-the-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India will be gearing up for the fourth and last test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy ( BGT) 2023, at Ahmedabad. The home side is leading the series by 2-1 against Australia, Men in Blue needs to win the last test match to qualify for the World Test Championship (WTC) final, whereas Aussies have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6803],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}