Team India’s star batsman Virat Kohli finally managed to end his century drought in Test cricket. Virat Kohli played a brilliant inning of 186 runs in the Ahmedabad Test match against Australia. During this memorable innings, Kohli faced 364 balls and hit 15 fours. This was the 28th century of Virat Kohli’s Test career.
King Kohli completed his century in 241 balls and during that time he hit only 5 fours. But after scoring a century, Kohli accelerated his innings and rained fours. The way Kohli was batting, it seemed that he would definitely score a double century. Especially when the partnership with Akshar Patel was going on, Kohli was also looking confident about his double century. But Akshar Patel, R. After the dismissal of Ashwin and Umesh Yadav, difficulties arose for Virat Kohli.
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Smith deployed 9 players on the boundary line
Australian captain Steve Smith adopted a special strategy as soon as Mohammed Shami landed on the field. Smith deployed nine players near the boundary line to prevent Virat from scoring a double century. That is, Smith challenged Kohli in a way and said that if you want to score a double century, you have to hit sixes or hit fours with perfect timing. Virat Kohli did not want to give strike to Shami by taking a single. Kohli was finally caught by Marnus Labuschagne at deep-midwicket in the process of hitting a big shot off Todd Murphy. The picture of this field placement is becoming very viral on social media.
India scored 571 runs in the first innings
Talking about the match, at the time of stumps on the fourth day, Australia had scored three runs in their second innings without any loss. Travis Head 0 and Matthew Kuhnman were at the crease without opening the account. Earlier, the Indian team scored a score of 571 runs in their first innings. Virat Kohli scored 186 and Shubman Gill scored 128 runs. At the same time, Akshar Patel also contributed a blistering 79 runs. Nathan Lyon and Todd Murphy took three wickets each for Australia.
The Australian team scored a mammoth score of 480 runs in their first innings. Opener Usman Khawaja scored his 14th century in Test career, scoring an inning of 180 runs, which included 21 fours. At the same time, Cameron Green also contributed 114 runs with the help of 18 fours. Ravichandran Ashwin got the maximum six wickets from India.
India must win in Ahmedabad
It is necessary for India to win the Ahmedabad Test match. If Rohit Brigade wins this match, then it will reach the final of the Test Championship. In case of a draw, India will have to depend on the results of the Sri Lanka-New Zealand series. Then in such a situation, the Indian team will have to pray that New Zealand wins or draws in a match against Sri Lanka.