Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra has added that Virat Kohli has faced dismal returns this year, especially in Team India’s last two Test series against Bangladesh and New Zealand. He also stated that opposing teams no longer seem to consider him impregnable when he walks out to bat as well. Virat Kohli scored 93 runs at an average of 15.50 in six innings in the recently concluded Test series against New Zealand. He also managed 99 runs at a poor average of 33.00 in four innings in the previous series against Bangladesh.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, he said, “Kohli also has just one fifty in 10 innings. If you see other than that, you will find that he left a lot to be desired. In fact, you can see his entire year. He didn’t play the England series. I thought that was a big miss. The last five years’ story is not good and the last 10 innings are not good at all.”
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“Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar or Sir Vivian Richards, these players have an aura, that once they come to bat, they would dictate. That sort of aura used to be there when Virat Kohli used to come. When Virat Kohli comes now, it seems like he can be dismissed without any issues. I am not saying that. You can see that from the opposing team’s body language,” Chopra further added.
In the same video, Aakash Chopra also shared that Virat Kohli has committed numerous judgment errors lately as well.
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“The error of judgment is happening repeatedly. Sometimes a full toss is missed and you take a run after hitting straight to the fielder on another occasion. Sometimes you don’t know that you got an inside edge, and even the outside edge. You don’t take the DRS once and take the second time, and both were wrong. This year, even if you see the T20 World Cup, he was outstanding in the final, he is God’s child, but he didn’t score runs apart from that, and that is a reality. He didn’t score runs on the Sri Lanka tour. So the heart beats fast if you see Kohli’s 2024,” Aakash Chopra concluded.
