India's National Cricket Team struggles with a superstar Virat Kohli he took charge of the team in the second Test of the 2024-25 Frontier-Gavaskar Trophy.
Virat Kohli stepped in as captain, albeit for a brief moment, at the Adelaide Test against the Australian National Cricket Team on Friday, December 6.
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Watch: Virat Kohli wears the captain's hat
Kohli is the most successful Indian captain in the history of test cricket. Under his leadership, he transformed the Test team and made them an unstoppable force at home and a dominant team in overseas matches.
He brought the culture of fitness to the team and built a good fast bowling unit with the coaches which helped Team India register some historic wins in the SENA Tests.
Virat Kohli captained the Test team from 2014 to 2022 in 68 matches and led them to 48 wins. He lost only 17 games as the red ball captain and had a winning percentage of 58.82.
From time to time, he has been seen helping a skipper Rohit Sharma on the field. A similar thing happened on Day 1 of the Adelaide Test.
He gave captain Rohit Sharma fielding tips to break the partnership between Nathan McSweeney and Nathan McSweeney Marnus Labuschagne.
In the 17th over, Virat Kohli went towards Rohit and had a small talk with him. He seemed to give some tips to Rohit Sharma and, after that, ordered Siraj to change the field.
Watch: Virat Kohli sets the field in the 2nd Test
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However, Virat Kohli's suggestions did not work as Australian batsmen Nathan McSweeney and Marnus Labuschagne remained unbeaten at the end of the first day's play.
The two were involved in an excellent 62-run partnership as the Australian National Cricket Team was 86/1 at stumps.
Talking about Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma's performances with the bat, the Indian skipper scored just 3 runs off 23 balls while the striker, who hit a century in the Perth Test, scored 7 runs off 8 balls.
Indian bowlers have not really used the pink ball as well as they should – Sunil Gavaskar
Speaking on Star Sports, Indian National Cricket Team batsman Sunil Gavaskar expressed his disappointment over the performance of the Indian bowling unit.
He concluded that the Jasprit BumrahA properly directed bowling attack did not use the pink ball properly, so they failed on the first day.
“They have to make the batters play as much as they can. And this is what happens when you make the batters play as much as you can.
“You can settle them by bowling two deliveries outside off and then getting the ball to move back in, like Nathan McSweeney did in the Perth Test, or Labuschagne in the Perth Test, like Bumrah did . that they didn't use the pink ball as well as they should have,” Gavaskar said.
