Virat Kohli - When will the torture end?

[R!TTER]

3 hours ago, Muloghonto said:

When Tendy struggled for that fateful 2002 season ( Tendy suddenly went from world's best batsman to basically Mohammed Shami with the bat in hand for a whole damn year), he cut out the cover drive, changed his guard and fixed his problems. 

Your timeline is off; he cut that cover drive only in Oz when *nor was giving him out even on balls bouncing half a foot over the stumps—his bigger slump was post-2004 Oz tour in India for about 1-2 years, depending on how you look at it. It ended in Eng tour 2007, technically Bangers tour before that, but they're certified Minnos so.

[DeepSpace]

Chokohli has been sucking since the Perth test hundred. That was 5-6 years back. Since then he has sucked. I have not seen a “ATG” struggle for so long. Sharam kar bc, just fukking retire!!

[Muloghonto]

19 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

Your timeline is off; he cut that cover drive only in Oz when *nor was giving him out even on balls bouncing half a foot over the stumps—his bigger slump was post-2004 Oz tour in India for about 1-2 years, depending on how you look at it. It ended in Eng tour 2007, technically Bangers tour before that, but they're certified Minnos so.

Actually no, your timeline is off. The 'shoulder before wicket' incident was in the 99-2000 tour of Oz. In the 2002 tour of Oz, Tendy kept getting out to cover drives, so he cut out the cover drives when he did that whole 240* test in sydney.

Yes,his bigger slump campe in 2005 or 6, when he averaged like 25 with the bat - his only other genuinely bad season before 2011, except for the 2002 season. 

 

[R!TTER]

There was no tour of Oz in 2002; it was the NZ tour on absolute green/seaming wickets, where India crossed double digits only twice (3?) in 2 tests & 7 ODI. Just around a year after that, we had the Oz tour in 2003/04 or so. Now if you're referring to the NZ tour overall, I wouldn't call it a slump as the pitches were totally skewed towards pacers that time. But it also kind of assured us we got to the finals in the 2003 WC; that tough grind helped us out massively, although we still lost badly to Oz.

[Muloghonto]

52 minutes ago, R!TTER said:

There was no tour of Oz in 2002; it was the NZ tour on absolute green/seaming wickets, where India crossed double digits only twice (3?) in 2 tests & 7 ODI. Just around a year after that, we had the Oz tour in 2003/04 or so. Now if you're referring to the NZ tour overall, I wouldn't call it a slump as the pitches were totally skewed towards pacers that time. But it also kind of assured us we got to the finals in the 2003 WC; that tough grind helped us out massively, although we still lost badly to Oz.

Sorry i meant 2003. That is the year Tendy had like 180 runs from 9-10 innings. That is the year he first truly went into a slump and then gave up the cover drive for the sydney epic. 

Your 'shoulder before wicket' to *nor was either in Adelaide or Sydney test of the 99-00 tour of Oz. 

 

[Nikhil_cric]

2 hours ago, Muloghonto said:

Actually no, your timeline is off. The 'shoulder before wicket' incident was in the 99-2000 tour of Oz. In the 2002 tour of Oz, Tendy kept getting out to cover drives, so he cut out the cover drives when he did that whole 240* test in sydney.

Yes,his bigger slump campe in 2005 or 6, when he averaged like 25 with the bat - his only other genuinely bad season before 2011, except for the 2002 season. 

 

He is not talking about shoulder before wicket which was in 99/00. I think this was a Bucknor decision to a Gillespie ball that seemed to bounce above the stumps but was given out anyway in 03/04. 

Edited November 2 by Nikhil_cric

[nevada]

36 years old(on paper - probably closer to 40), washed up since ages and a disconnected NRI of late. Why can't he just retire and chill? 

[Mariyam]

1 hour ago, nevada said:

36 years old(on paper - probably closer to 40), washed up since ages and a disconnected NRI of late. Why can't he just retire and chill? 

Contractual obligations towards the multitude of brands that he has agreed to endorse?

Edited November 2 by Mariyam

[R!TTER]

4 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

I think this was a Bucknor decision to a Gillespie ball that seemed to bounce above the stumps but was given out anyway in 03/04. 

He was given out wrongly 2-3 times in that series, & IIRC all of them were by *nor!

[Frustrated]

Ever since I started following cricket I kept hearing the term 'walking wicket'.

Never heard anything like Running wicket.  

Credit to chokli's legacy which has enlightened me about that.    

[New guy]

6 hours ago, Mariyam said:

Contractual obligations towards the multitude of brands that he has agreed to endorse?

Yep, same reason why Dhoni keeps dragging himself into his IPL team and just cannot let go. At least he is doing it only for his club and not like Kohli.

[rkt.india]

Looking forward to what new way of dismissal he invents today.  Full toss, run out and now hit wicket or obstructing the field?

[New guy]

19 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Looking forward to what new way of dismissal he invents today.  Full toss, run out and now hit wicket or obstructing the field?

And his fans will then claim how unlucky he was.

[Ultimate_Game]

21 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

Looking forward to what new way of dismissal he invents today.  Full toss, run out and now hit wicket or obstructing the field?

 

As long as he doesn't run others out (the way he ran Pant out the last match), I'm good. His ceiling is around 20 and most likely to get out in single digits.

[Ultimate_Game]

3 minutes ago, New guy said:

And his fans will then claim how unlucky he was.

 

You mean @putrevus 

 

Kohli is always "unlucky" and bowlers always let him down as per that Kohli homer 

[Cricket_Hacker]

Proved useless again in a crunch situation 

[Ultimate_Game]

7 minutes ago, Cricket_Hacker said:

Proved useless again in a crunch situation 

 

You were expecting something else? Isn't nearly 1.5 decades of history shown that Kohli's nothing but a bilateral king.

[Texan]

1 hour ago, Cricket_Hacker said:

Proved useless again in a crunch situation 

That's what he has been doing for two decades now. Complete dud when it matters the most.

[mani sha]

Was this the last test of kohli on home soil ? I just hope kohli is dropped after the aussie series. . 
 

jaiswal 

gill 

pant 

Jurel 

samson 

sundar 

axar 

chinaman 

deep 

harshit 

bumrah 

 

reddy / thakur 

a sharma / a eashwaram 

Mayank fast 

Arshdeep 

 

decent team as above. 

 

[Rajiv]

This guy needs to sit in his moody wife's lap. I think he has no desire to play cricket since he is so big now with all the $$. We need to rebuild, and maybe give Sarfaraz a little more chance, even Rohit looks flat now.