India National Cricket Team batting superstar Virat Kohli took charge of the team during the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.
Virat Kohli stepped in as captain, although for a brief moment, during the Adelaide Test against Australia National Cricket Team on Friday, December 6.
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Kohli is the most successful Indian captain in the history of Test cricket. Under his leadership, he transformed the Test team and made them an unbeatable force at home and a dominant side in overseas matches.
He brought the fitness culture to the team and built a great fast bowling unit with the coaches that helped Team India register some historic wins in the SENA Tests.
Virat Kohli captained the Test team from 2014 to 2022 in 68 matches and led them to 48 wins. He lost just 17 matches as the red-ball skipper and had a win percentage of 58.82.
From time to time, he has been seen assisting skipper Rohit Sharma on the field. A similar kind of thing happened on Day 1 of the Adelaide Test.
He gave some fielding suggestions to captain Rohit Sharma to break the partnership between Nathan McSweeney and Marnus Labuschagne.
In the 17th over, Virat Kohli went towards Rohit and had a small chat with him. It looked like he gave some suggestions to Rohit Sharma and, after that, instructed Siraj to change the field.
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However, Virat Kohli’s suggestions didn’t work as Australia batters Nathan McSweeney and Marnus Labuschagne remained unbeaten at the end of the first day’s play.
The duo were engaged in a stellar 62-run partnership as the Australia National Cricket Team were at 86/1 at stumps.
Talking about the performances of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma with the bat, the Indian skipper managed to score just 3 runs off 23 balls while the batting stalwart, who hit a century in the Perth Test, scored 7 runs off 8 balls.
The Indian bowlers have not really used the pink ball as well as they should have – Sunil Gavaskar
Speaking on Star Sports, the India National Cricket Team batting great Sunil Gavaskar expressed his disappointment over the performance of the Indian bowling unit.
He opined that the Jasprit Bumrah-led bowling attack failed to use the pink ball properly, which led to their failure on the first day.
“They have to make the batters play as much as they can. And this is what happens when you make the batters play as much as you can.
“You can set them up by bowling a couple of deliveries outside and then get the ball to move back in, as it did to Nathan McSweeney in the Perth Test, or to Labuschagne in the Perth Test, like what Bumrah did. The Indian bowlers have not really used the pink ball as well as they should have,” Gavaskar said.
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