Ricky Ponting on Virat Kohli: The first match of the five-Test series between India and Australia will be played in Perth on November 22. The squads of both the teams have been announced for this. The Indian team has won the last four Border-Gavaskar trophies against Australia. But this time the road will not be easy for Team India. Superstar batsman Virat Kohli is out of form and has not been able to perform as per his name. Now former Australian batsman Ricky Ponting has backed Kohli.
Kohli is struggling with poor form
Virat Kohli could score only 93 runs in the last six Test innings. Team India had to pay the price for their poor form by losing the Test series against New Zealand. Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting told ICC that I have spoken about Virat before. You can’t point fingers at great players. There is no doubt that he is a great cricketer. He loves playing against Australia. His record in Australia is also excellent. It can change everything in this series. I won’t be surprised if Virat starts scoring runs from the very first match.
Ricky Ponting Ponting said I read a statistic about Virat. It is said that he has scored only two Test centuries in the last five years. This doesn’t seem right, but if so, it’s a cause for concern. There will be no top international cricketer in the world who has scored only two Test centuries in five years. Regarding the loss against New Zealand, he said that the Indian batsmen have proved weak in playing the spinners.
Among the top-10 in the ICC Test rankings
He said that it seems that modern Indian batsmen cannot play spin the way Indian batsmen used to. Perhaps now Indian pitches are more helpful to fast bowlers. Virat has scored runs at an average of 22.72 in the six Tests since the start of this year, his lowest average since his debut in 2011. He has also dropped out of the top 20 in the ICC Test rankings for the first time in ten years.
(Input: PTI)
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