Virat Kohli made another shameful record, and saw the worst day in Sydney after 4 years.
The year 2024 was very bad for Team India's legendary batsman Virat Kohli. He struggled with his poor form throughout the year. Fans were hoping that Virat would start 2025 with a bang but he lost his wicket in the new year due to his old weakness. Virat got out on a ball going outside the off stump in the last Test being played in Sydney and with this he also made a shameful record. This innings of Virat has become the longest innings without a boundary in his Test career.
Virat made a shameful record in Sydney.
Kohli faced 69 balls in the Sydney Test and scored just 17 runs. In 69 balls, Virat neither hit any four nor any six. This innings proved to be the longest innings without any boundary in his Test career. Earlier, Virat had not hit any boundary while playing 48 balls against England in the year 2021. Then Virat had scored just 11 runs.
The year changed, but not Virat's weakness
In the Border Gavaskar Trophy, Virat Kohli has been out on balls going outside the off stump. Virat has been out in this manner in seven out of eight innings on this tour so far. A similar scene was seen in the Sydney Test as well. Scott Boult's outside ball took the edge of Virat's bat and landed in the hands of debutant Beau Webster and Virat flopped in his very first innings of the year. The mistake he kept making in 2024, he could not correct it even in 2025.
Kohli is failing miserably in the series
This Australian tour was not good at all for Virat. After failing in the first innings, he scored an unbeaten century in the second innings. But after this, Virat Kohli disappointed the fans one after the other in Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne. This sequence did not break in Sydney as well. In the current series, Virat has been able to score only 184 runs in 9 innings of five matches. Apart from one century, not even a half century came from his bat.