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How Virat Kohli, the poster boy, lost colors on England tour

New Delhi: When Team India embarked on England tour, Virat Kohli – the poster boy in India, was the most trusted and talked about batsman in the new look and young Indian side. But alas,

 

 


Any batsman can fail or can go through the lean phase but whtas worrying about Kohli is his dismissal  has become so predictable. Now the question is why is he not correcting his flaw in negotiating the out going deliveries…? By now he must have seen videos of his dismissals at least fifty time and must have been tutored by batting coach and other senior Indian cricketers touring as commentators.
 

 


English bowlers have discovered his weak spot and challenged him with the out swing deliveries. His judgment of what to leave and what to play has gone awry. In the eight  innings so far in the series he has been caught edging six times behind the stumps; 4 times at slips and 2 times to the keeper. All his dismissals have been similar to one another. He has been troubled by the pace of Anderson and Broad. He tried to dominate the bowlers right from the start and then eventually ended up playing an unnecessary shot.