Veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has opened up on Virat Kohli’s dismissal on the last ball of Day 3 of the first Test between India and New Zealand. He also added that Kohli was unfortunate as he got a little edge when he could have easily missed the ball as well. Kohli scored 70 runs off 102 deliveries as India ended Day 3 (Friday, October 18) in Bengaluru at 231/3 in their second innings as well.

Reviewing the game on Colors Cineplex, Chopra said, “It happens very rarely that Virat Kohli goes neither forward nor back. He has a huge forward stride and if he cannot reach there, he definitely uses the depth of the crease. It might have been playing in his mind that it was the day’s last over, and maybe a slight concentration lapse as he didn’t read the length properly.”

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“You played a sort of defensive push and your luck was bad because the truth is that it’s only a difference of luck between getting beaten or getting out. If your luck is bad, you get an outside edge, and if it is good, it goes to the keeper and you hear oohs and aahs. Unfortunately, he got out for 70. It was a big blow,” Chopra again shared.

During the same discussion, Aakash Chopra also said about Friday’s knock being Virat Kohli’s first Test half-century of the year as well.

“It’s the first half-century also because he didn’t play the five-Test series against England. The two matches against Bangladesh weren’t that good. It’s only a matter of when. We were saying the same thing when he got out for zero, that he would make for sure because he is such a mighty player. The start wasn’t that good today. He seemed to be on the verge of getting out in the first 14-15 balls. However, then when he batted, he played some amazing shots. There was a drive, it was a full ball, the long-on was there and he hit a four despite that. It’s just the whip of the wrist without using his feet,” Aakash Chopra concluded.