
The Virat Kohli void that has caught India on the wrong foot
Hindustan TimesTransitions don’t come with a notice, especially when it’s a team sport as layered as cricket. India's Virat Kohli during a practice session Considering the unprecedented, extended and alarming dry spell that he had to endure preceding 2023, there couldn’t have been a bigger reaffirmation of India’s blind faith in Kohli. With three Tests still to go, the exact degree to which Kohli’s absence might hurt India is yet to be ascertained. That fourth innings average of 53.33 at home—better than even Tendulkar’s 46.94—speaks highly of the skill required to last on tricky crumbling pitches, something India lacked at Hyderabad. It’s not coincidental that five out of seven times India has piled up 600 plus in the last 10 years, Kohli has scored at least a hundred to it, four of them double hundreds.
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