Rohit Sharma has backed struggling Virat Kohli to hit the form going into the fourth Test match in Melbourne. In a pre-match press conference at the MCG, the Indian cricket team captain had a cheeky reply to a journalist’s question about the former’s thoughts on Kohli’s struggles against the outside the off-stump deliveries.
Kohli started the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy with an unbeaten century in Perth but was exposed to outside-the-off-stump deliveries in the last two matches. Kohli scored just 21 runs across three innings after his 30th Test hundred and was spotted practising heavily to improve his play against similar deliveries in nets ahead of the Boxing Day Test.
When asked bout Kohli’s struggles, the smiling Rohit said that modern-day greats like Kohli figure out their own path. Rohit added nothing further to his thoughts about his teammate’s struggles.
“You only said he is a modern-day great and modern-day greats figure out their own path,” Rohit Sharma said.
Virat has scored 126 runs in 5 innings at an average of 31.50 in the ongoing series. The former captain has endured a poor 2024 year with 376 runs in 17 Test innings at an average of 25.06 with one hundred and one fifty.
However, Kohli’s performance is not the only worrying sign for India going into the Boxing Day Test. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal has also struggled despite starting the series with a brilliant hundred in Perth. Rohit has also failed to make an impact with the bat with just 19 runs in three innings after missing the series opener due to the personal reason.
