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Virat Kohli has a problem in his mind, not his batting… Who said such a big thing after the failure in the Gaba Test?

By Pranay Jain | Dec 16, 2024, 16:28 IST
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New match, new innings but the condition is the same as before. This is the story of Team India's star batsman Virat Kohli. Virat's bad phase continues in the Test series on the Australia tour. Apart from the brilliant century in the second innings of the Perth Test, Kohli failed miserably in the remaining 4 innings and the same old way of getting out - out on a ball outside the off stump. The same happened in the Brisbane Test, after which the question started arising as to whether this was a technical problem in batting. Legends like Sunil Gavaskar and Cheteshwar Pujara do not believe so.

Virat Kohli was out after scoring just 3 runs in the first innings of the third match of the Test series in Brisbane. He was caught out by Josh Hazlewood at the hands of wicketkeeper Alex Carey. It is not difficult to guess that Kohli must have been out while trying to play a cover drive. Anyone who has seen Virat Kohli batting continuously in the last 10-12 years can easily tell that this is his biggest weakness.


'Kohli will have to learn to be patient'

Now, if a player of Kohli's stature, who has scored thousands of runs and 81 centuries, has been playing at such a big level for many years, then it is expected that such a weakness should have been removed, but this has not happened. About 10 years ago, when he was getting out like this on the England tour, it was thought that this could be a technical flaw. Then he scored a lot of runs on the 2018 England tour. This strengthened the idea that he has overcome this weakness in batting, but the truth is something else.

The truth is that there is more problem with Virat's thinking than his batting technique. He does not seem to be mentally strong enough to stop him from repeating the same mistake again and again. After his dismissal in Brisbane, former great batsmen like Sunil Gavaskar and Matthew Hayden said in commentary that the problem is not with Kohli's batting but with his mind. Gavaskar once again mentioned Sachin Tendulkar's historic 241-run innings and said that Kohli will have to learn to be patient and avoid playing cover drives like Sachin because at the moment he is failing in it.

Pujara also showed the mirror

Not just Gavaskar, but Cheteshwar Pujara, who was a part of Team India for a long time with Kohli, also expressed his views on this. Pujara said that Kohli needs to think about how to face such balls because the way he gets out is constantly the same. Now the question is, is Virat Kohli not leaving the ball outside the off stump due to his stubbornness, has he really become mentally weak at the moment?

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