Why Australia Tests Would Be A Make Or Break Series For Virat Kohli
Cricket Today|December 7, 2018

Kohli the batsman emerged triumphant in all the eight Tests India played away this year but Kohli the captain failed miserably...

Harshit Anand
Why Australia Tests Would Be A Make Or Break Series For Virat Kohli

On the back of Kohli and Pandya’s partner-ship, India fans are no longer gasping. There’s steadiness among them as hopes of a win are aplomb. Kohli is constantly walking across his stumps so that he can tackle out swingers well, which had undone him to foundering in the same country, four years back.

Ben Stokes is bowling at full throttle. Kohli walks across the stumps yet again, plants the front leg across and misses the flick shot. It’s a very full ball from Stokes. And Virat is gone with India needing 53 runs to win the opening Test in Edgbaston. They still have three wickets in hand. And unsurprisingly, team India fails to cross the line.

It was a match where King Kohli reigned supreme with 149 and 51 yet India failed to win.

This was the dawn of string of disappointments that Kohli would have to see his team succumb to, in the remainder of the series, much like South Africa. India lost by 1-4 in England. They had lost by 1-2 in South Africa.

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