WATCH - Virat Kohli Takes Two Crucial Catches In Delhi

WATCH – Virat Kohli Takes Two Crucial Catches In Delhi

By CricShots - Mar 13, 2019 4:47 pm

After losing the Mohali ODI against Australia, Team India was in a desperate need of the win as the series is leveled at 2-2 after the fourth ODI. The series-decider is currently being played at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. After winning the toss, the Australian skipper, Aaron Finch decided to bat first and even the Indian skipper, Virat Kohli wanted to do the same.

kohli — Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowling to Khawaja

However, India made some surprising changes in the squad as KL Rahul and Yuzvendra Chahal were replied by Jadeja and Mohammed Shami. On the other hand, Australia replaced Shaun Marsh and Jason Behrendroff with Marcus Stoinis and Nathan Lyon.

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Australia had a decent start to their innings as they were standing at 76 without loss after the 14-over mark. Then came Jadeja for the bowling the 15th over of the game and he got the breakthrough for the hosts by dismissing Finch. However, after that dismissal, Peter Handscomb and Usman Khawaja again started to build a partnership which was broken in the 33rd over, but only after latter scoring his 2nd ODI century.

On the final ball of the penultimate over, Khawaja gave his wicket gift-wrapped at Kohli’s feet. Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled a slower one outside off, tempting the drive on the up and Khawaja obliges, not taking the care he has done all innings to keep the ball down, or away from a fielder and the ball ended up going straight to the Indian captain at short cover. Khawaja got dismissed just after reaching to his 2nd ODI century.

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In the very next over, India got another important wicket of Glenn Maxwell and again the catch was taken by Virat at short cover. On the penultimate ball of the over bowled by Jadeja, Maxwell was dismissed trying to hit the ball over cover, but he failed to get the elevation because he didn’t get to the pitch. The ball spun away a bit more than he expected, and Kohli is extremely alert at extra cover to take a comfortable catch.

Here is the video of the dismissal: