Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has said that Virat Kohli’s issues against leg spin are concerning. He opined on that Kohli got out to Rishad Hossain in India’s 2025 Champions Trophy clash against Bangladesh after succumbing to Adil Rashid in the recent ODI series against England as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “It has become a ruckus now. Whether the name is Rashid or Rishad, if he is a leg-spinner, he would get him (Kohli) out. He will dismiss him on the front foot at times and on the back foot on other occasions. It’s not a good story. It’s not a good look. He gets out as soon as a leg-spinner comes. I will be very honest, the way he was batting, it didn’t seem like he has hit top gear. When he scored a fifty in the last match, the one in Ahmedabad, then also it didn’t seem like he had hit top gear.”

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“Here also, when he came to bat, he scored his first run off probably his ninth or tenth ball. After that also, it didn’t seem like the ball was hitting the middle of his bat. Many balls hit the bat’s inside edge. He was reading the length okay but the batting wasn’t like Kohli’s Virat avatar,” Chopra shared again.

In the same video, Aakash Chopra also said that Virat Kohli needs to acknowledge his problems against leg spin if he wants success.

“I don’t know what is happening against leg spinners. He has gotten out while defending, driving, and got out while playing the cut today (Thursday). I don’t have an answer. He is getting out to spinners when the ball is leaving him – leg spin or left-arm spin. There is a problem. The improvement starts only when you accept the truth,” Aakash Chopra concluded.