
Former India participant Aakash Chopra has famous that Virat Kohli’s points in opposition to leg spin are regarding. He identified that the ace Indian batter fell prey to Rishad Hossain within the Males in Blue’s 2025 Champions Trophy conflict in opposition to Bangladesh after succumbing to Adil Rashid within the latest ODI sequence in opposition to England.
India bundled Bangladesh out for 228 of their opening Group A sport in Dubai on Thursday, February 20. Though Kohli managed solely 22 runs off 38 deliveries within the chase, Rohit Sharma and firm achieved the goal with six wickets and 21 deliveries to spare.
In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra’, the previous India opener highlighted that Kohli has been discovered wanting in opposition to leg spin recently.
“It has turn into a ruckus now. Whether or not the identify is Rashid or Rishad, if he’s a leg-spinner, he would get him (Kohli) out. He’ll dismiss him on the entrance foot at occasions and on the again foot on different events. It is not an excellent story. It is not an excellent look,” he mentioned (11:10).
Chopra opined that Kohli wasn’t at his greatest in Thursday’s sport and through his half-century within the ultimate ODI in opposition to England.
“He will get out as quickly as a leg-spinner comes. I might be very sincere, the way in which he was batting, it did not appear to be he has hit high gear. When he scored a fifty within the final match, the one in Ahmedabad, then additionally it did not appear to be he had hit high gear,” he noticed.
The cricketer-turned-commentator added that the fashionable batting nice wasn’t middling the ball in opposition to Bangladesh and wasn’t his dominant self.
“Right here additionally, when he got here to bat, he scored his first run off in all probability his ninth or tenth ball. After that additionally, it did not appear to be the ball was hitting the center of his bat. Many balls hit the bat’s inside edge. He was studying the size okay however the batting wasn’t like Kohli’s Virat avatar,” Chopra elaborated.
Virat Kohli walked out to bat when Rohit Sharma (41 off 36) was dismissed after a 69-run opening partnership with Shubman Gill (101* off 129) in simply 9.5 overs. Kohli and Gill added 43 runs in 12.5 overs, with the previous hitting only one 4 throughout his 38-ball keep.
“The advance begins solely whenever you settle for the reality” – Aakash Chopra on Virat Kohli’s downside in opposition to leg spin
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In the identical video, Aakash Chopra famous that Virat Kohli must acknowledge his issues in opposition to leg spin if he desires to deal with the problem.
“I do not know what is going on in opposition to leg spinners. He has gotten out whereas defending, driving, and obtained out whereas taking part in the lower right now (Thursday). I haven’t got a solution. He’s getting out to spinners when the ball is leaving him – leg spin or left-arm spin. There’s a downside. The advance begins solely whenever you settle for the reality,” he mentioned (12:10).
Aakash Chopra expressed hope about Virat Kohli resolving his points in opposition to leg spin forward of India’s 2025 Champions Trophy conflict in opposition to Pakistan. He identified that Abrar Ahmed, a kind of thriller spinner, may hassle the previous India captain on a barely spin-friendly Dubai pitch in any other case.