Virat Kohli’s woeful form in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 continued after the batter once again edged the ball to the slip cordon on Friday, January 3.
Batting on Day 1 of the final Test match of the series in Sydney, Kohli was caught in the slips in the 32nd over of the game. The senior India batter played 69 runs and scored only 17 runs. Kohli, in fact, was nearly dismissed in the very first ball of his innings, after he had managed to edge Scott Boland to Steve Smith. Kohli was lucky to survive after Smith seemingly grassed half the ball before floating it up for Marnus Labushchagne at gully.
This was the 6th time that Kohli got out by edging the ball outside off stump. The Indian No.4 has been challenged in the corridor of uncertainty throughout the series, and has managed to edge the ball every time despite looking set.
Kohli’s exploits in series as as follows: 5, 100*, 7, 11, 3, 36, 5 and now 17.
The only time Kohli did not edge the ball to the slips was when he remained unbeaten in the second innings of the opening innings at Perth. On other note, Virat Kohli’s love-hate relationship with Australia continued after the batter was booed by the SCG crowd on Friday, January 3. Kohli got jeered by the crowd while entering the arena.
The batter has been targetted by the crowd ever since bumping into Sam Konstas in the first innings of the Melbourne Test match. Kohli had rammed into the young Australia batter at the MCG when the youngster took on Jasprit Bumrah in the Boxing Day Test match.
At the time of writing, India were 100/4 with Ravindra Jadeja and Rishabh Pant rebuilding for India. The team had lost Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli so far.