Virat Kohli again failed to score big in the third Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy at The Gabba, Brisbane. The 36-year-old found himself troubled with the offside stump delivery again as Josh Hazlewood found the edge of his bat and wicket keeper Alex Carey made no mistake in collecting the ball to give Australia a big breakthrough. Reacting to his dismissal, former Indian cricketer Indian cricketer Irfan Pathan took to his Instagram to advise Virat Kohli to tackle the off-stump delivery.
Virat Kohli could only score three runs off 16 balls in the first innings of Gabba Test against Australia. After that, there was lots of debate regarding Kohli’s struggles with the off-stump delivery. Reacting to this, Irfan Pathan shared an image of Kohli attempting to play a shot during Gabba Test. In his story, Irfan wrote “With the back shoulder opened up so much, Virat has and will face this issue of offside. He is a great player and hopefully he will find a way to.”
Australia in commanding position vs Indian in 3rd BGT Test
Talking about the match, Australia were bowled out for 445 runs in the first innings of the Gabba Test. After Travis Head and Steve Smith shone on day two with respective centuries, wicketkeeper Alex Carey did the remaining job on day three and scored 70(88) runs. For India, it was Jasprit Bumrah again who turned out to be lone warrior for India registering figures of 6/76.
In reply to Australia’s big total India had a disastrous start in the first innings as they lost three wickets for 22 runs in 7.2 overs, losing key players like Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill and Viray Kohli. After a few overs, Rishabh Pant also lost his wicket scoring mere nine runs. India are currently at 51/4 with KL Rahul batting at 30*(64) runs along with skipper Rohit Sharma who is yet to score his first run. India are still 394 runs behind Australia’’s first innings total.
