Even in Australia, Virat Kohli's flop show continues, for the first time in 7 years, we had to see such a shameful day

Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 between India and Australia has started. The first Test match is being played in Perth from November 22. Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who is captaining Team India in the absence of Rohit Sharma, won the toss and decided to bat first. Fast bowlers Harshit Rana and Nitish Reddy were given debut caps.

KL Rahul and Yashaswi Jaiswal opened the Indian innings. Jaiswal failed in his first match in Australia. The young opening batsman could not even open his account. Mitchell Stark made him his victim. After this, Devdutt Padikal also returned to the pavilion without opening an account. Virat Kohli came to the crease to support KL Rahul after the 2 young batsmen were bowled out.

Kohli disappointed

Kohli started playing cautiously and soon opened the account. Kohli managed just 5 runs when he was caught at slip by Josh Hazlewood trying to bowl a short pitch. Kohli did not understand the short pitched ball. He didn’t want to play the ball back of length in the line of off stump but the extra bounce caused the ball to hit the bat and Usman Khawaja caught at slip.

This is how Virat Kohli became a victim of Josh Hazlewood for the 10th time in international cricket. Hazlewood has now become the joint second bowler to dismiss Kohli for the most number of times. Earlier, James Anderson and Moeen Ali have also dismissed Kohli 10 times each. Not only that, Hazlewood has now become the Australian bowler who has dismissed Virat Kohli the most times.

Bowler who dismissed Virat Kohli most times in international cricket

11 – Team Saudi
10 – Josh Hazlewood*
10 – James Anderson
10 – Moeen Ali

It is noteworthy that Virat Kohli has failed to reach the score of 20 runs in five consecutive innings in Tests. Kohli’s last five scores are 5, 1, 4, 17 and 1. Thus, for the first time in 7 years, Kohli had to see a day when he could not even touch the 20-run mark in 5 consecutive innings in a Test.