In this match, Virat Kohli tried to hit the bouncy ball outside the off stump of Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc and was caught by Steve Smith standing at slip. After which Manjrekar highlighted Virat Kohli's struggle on balls outside the off-stump and wrote, 'Virat's average has now come down to 48, an important reason for this is his unfortunate weakness outside the off-stump. But more importantly, he doesn't try any other way to tackle it.
Kohli's Test average has dropped to 48, which shows his declining performance in this format. Despite his impressive record in Adelaide with an average of over 63 and over 500 runs, he was not so successful with the bat this time.
Talking about the match, after winning the toss and coming to bat first, Team India's first innings was limited to 180 runs. Nitish Reddy scored the highest score of 42 runs, while KL Rahul scored 37 runs. Mitchell Starc took the maximum of six wickets for Australia. This was the 15th five-wicket haul of his Test career.
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