Virat Kohli: India vs Australia: Virat Kohli spends extra hours against spinners in the nets | Cricket News
With the possibility of another slow-motion person on the Second Test, scheduled to start Friday, local Kohli boy is braced to give his best effort. Extra efforts seem absolutely necessary as scoring will be a struggle.
Kohli to the stadium at least half an hour before the Indian team bus arrived in his personal car – a shiny jet black Porsche. He wanted more time to hit the ball and arrived early in practice. He started with customary downswings and a number of knocks down pitchers over the net.
Once, a young man, playing military bowling, was disdainfully pulled from his hind legs, which he asked for the spinners.
“The gyro ko bulaao,” Kohli said, and moved on to the other net, where he began handling the gyros.
Virat Kohli hits the ball into the net during a practice session. (AFP photo)
Kohli looks at the roughness created on that training strip and then uses her boots to create more abrasions. batting coach Vikram Rathourin fact, he pointed to specific areas where he could make indentations and let the ball do the talking. The idea is to counter the natural variation off the surface where you land the ball on rough ground and it can turn to either side.
India A regular Saurabh Kumartalented left-hander from UP, asked some probing questions.
There was one delivery where Kohli had to walk on her hind legs. The ball does not bounce after being thrown. It’s a kind of “shooting” that doesn’t increase. Kohli gave a wry smile and looked up at the water.
There were two skewed pitchers, net throwers Pulkit Narang and Hrithik Shokeen who bounced and sometimes mixed it with a flatter trajectory.
On that day, he often went down to the track to overcome the rough roads while driving Shokeen and Narang during that session. He didn’t start very well because some shots didn’t match the blade.
Kohli’s struggles with spinners are real and the Feroz Shah Kotla track will be another slow spinner like Nagpur if not slower. He was caught in the leg while trying to control the gyroscope Todd Murphy in Nagpur Test.
There is a grass cover, but anyone who has seen the Kotla turf in action will tell you that it is more important to maintain the surface alignment.
But there will be some moisture below the surface in the morning, which should help pitchers. But the Kotla is a type of track where both running and taking the sticks are hard work.
(With input from PTI)
