Virat Kohli
There is now just a week left for the start of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25, but Virat Kohli’s poor form shows no signs of ending. Barring captain Rohit Sharma, all the Indian team players have arrived in Australia for the five-match Test series. The first match of the Test series will be played in Perth from November 22. Before this match, Team India had a middle-wicket practice in which Virat Kohli couldn’t do anything special with the bat. Kohli returned to the pavilion after scoring only 15 runs. Indian fast bowler Mukesh Kumar made Kohli his victim.
During middle-wicket practice, Virat Kohli scored 15 runs, including a brilliant cover drive against Mukesh Kumar, but after a few balls he was caught at second slip while trying to push the ball outside the stump. In this way, Kohli’s failure continues even after reaching Australia. Kohli had also performed very poorly in the last two series played in India. Kohli could not even score 100 runs in the 2-match test series against Bangladesh. At the same time, Kohli’s performance in the three-match series against New Zealand was even worse. Kohli could only score 93 runs in 6 innings. In such a situation, there will now be pressure on Kohli to prove himself in Australia.
Jaiswal also disappointed
Let us tell you that before Australia’s first Test match, the Indian team was going to play an intra-team match against India A under the captaincy of Ruturaj Gaikwad, but it was cancelled. After this, the Indian team decided to practice at Perth’s center wicket. During this practice, not only Kohli but also opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal disappointed. Jaiswal also got out after scoring 15 runs. Jaiswal’s recent performance has also been nothing special. In such a situation, there will be a lot of pressure on him to perform better on his first tour of Australia.
Indian team for Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (goalkeeper), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (goalkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj , Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar.
reserve: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khalil Ahmed.
Australia squad for first test against India: Pat Cumming (captain), Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey, Josh Inglis, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Scott Boland, Nathan Lyon.
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