Pakistan captain Babar Azam has come out in support of fellow cricketer Virat Kohli as the former captain’s leanness continued during the second ODI.
“This too shall pass. Stay strong,” Azam said in a tweet after India’s defeat in the second ODI.
Due to a groin injury in the first ODI against England, Kohli scored 16 runs in the second match, which India Lost by 100 runs at Lord’s Although the batting maverick started on a strong note as he hit three quality boundaries, he was once again dismissed behind the stumps by David Willey to Jos Buttler.
After scores of 1 and 11 in the T20I series, the rescheduled fifth Test and failures in the IPL, the Indian batsman has played 77 consecutive international innings without reaching three points.
He has also been dropped from India’s T20I squad against West Indies, causing outrage among fans on Twitter.
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with T20 World With the Cup in Australia, experts are divided over Virat Kohli’s place in the playing XI. This, as Rohit Sharma threw his weight behind the batsman questioning the ‘experts’ to add his reasoning, was all that mattered to him.
“When someone is scoring runs consistently for so long, we can’t ignore his contribution if he is not scoring in one or two series or in one or two years,” Rohit said.
“We know the importance of Virat Kohli. Experts have every right to talk about it but these things don’t matter to us.