Which is surprising coz he never really struggled for scoring options against anyone through his career. His idea of being on the front foot compulsively and cutting out most risks has left him like this. Hopefully giving up the captaincy frees him up at RCB and in turn adds more arrows to his quiver when facing spin especially.
Thats where there's room for manual manipulation or interpretation and thus need for improvement.
I counted at least 2 balls where he should have cut Maharaj. If it was rahul he definitely would have. Lack of scoring options on the back foot is also why he has some trouble in England imo.
Actually Mike Atherton in his analysis showed why Rahul was succeeding this time in England.. Played a lot late & instead of cover drives he played a lot of square drives. Kohli just drives too much in the V. He is committed to the front foot way too much. Goes towards the ball rather than playing late. Very weird tactics to say the least.
since that series, he has scored 254 vs rsa, 123 vs aus, 136 vs ban, 139 vs wi
Well, I think almost all of those were at home or in Australia. Both places where this technique will work when you are in good form, which means you have a few more single options and are also willing to open up with respect to strokes. As he has gotten less runs, he seems to have given in more to this search of perfection and being in the right position for every ball and playing each ball "correctly". Basically lost his instinct to score runs which was the really good thing about him, ultimately.
And India's next wicket will be via a run out.
This is at least the 36th time HB has made this point.
Hopefully the last and the ****er can finally fix it.
