Why did Kohli play that shot?

[Trichromatic]

He was doing fine blocking and didn't look in any trouble whatsoever.

 

Could have stayed for 100 more balls scoring 25 runs.

[goose]

ego. the desire to dominate. addicted to 'action'. dopamine hit.

[Clarke]

Looking for runs, isn't that obvious

 

He has to show "intent" after criticizing others on that aspect.

[bahadur_billa]

He was getting frustrated as he was not able to score at all and Pant was hitting freely. Ball was there to drive but swung late. Had he just kept doing what he was maybe we could have scored 300+. South African bowlers were getting tired. Just needed to play out that one spell and things should have eased out for the rest of the day. 

[LordPrabhzy]

1 hour ago, Trichromatic said:

He was doing fine blocking and didn't look in any trouble whatsoever.

 

Could have stayed for 100 more balls scoring 25 runs.

even if we had scored 50 runs more we would have lost.

 

The main blame is on Openers and Pu Rane- going missing for majority of the series when the team needed them to put on runs on the board to give the bowlers something to defend- Also bumrah, Ashwin and Thakur have been run leaking machines so any target is achievable

[bahadur_billa]

Also Kohli's lack of backfoot game is being exploited by the opponents. He has been found out. Did really well this match to play only the over pitched deliveries for drives but still on bouncy wickets you cannot score only by having a front foot offside game. Look how well Peterson Rahul Bavuma were punching the balls through cover point. 

Only good thing for Kohli is that 8 out of 9 next test matches are in sub continent so no need to worry about the back foot game. 

[VT87]

5 minutes ago, bahadur_billa said:

Also Kohli's lack of backfoot game is being exploited by the opponents. He has been found out. Did really well this match to play only the over pitched deliveries for drives but still on bouncy wickets you cannot score only by having a front foot offside game. Look how well Peterson Rahul Bavuma were punching the balls through cover point. 

Only good thing for Kohli is that 8 out of 9 next test matches are in sub continent so no need to worry about the back foot game. 

Have you seen his game against spinners.

[mishra]

[Vijy]

Kohli can't resist fishing these days. He is not a defensive blocker like Dravid, Chanders, etc. so he will flash at some point and get out.