India’s skipper and the number one batsman in the world, Virat Kohli is going through a rough patch in international cricket at the moment. Precisely, he is not having a good time with the bat and the century master has been relatively quiet for a long time now.
Kohli had the worst series as a captain with the bat in the recently-concluded India-New Zealand ODI series as he could score only 75 runs in the three games he played. This was by far his poorest performance in a bilateral ODI series since his captaincy debut in the format.
His return to form is now long-awaited and spectators hoped for his comeback in the Test series. However, he was cheaply dismissed in the first innings of the first Test match at Wellington on Friday.
Virat Kohli Continues His Horror Show With The Bat:
Throughout the ongoing New Zealand tour, Kohli has managed to score just a single fifty across eight innings in all three international formats.
Kohli has now gone 19 international innings without scoring a hundred. Since hitting 136 vs Bangladesh in November 2019, Kohli has now failed to touch the three-figure mark in 19 international innings on the trot, capping his worst run of form since the horrid 2014 tour to England.
On Friday, he was dismissed by debutant Kyle Jamieson for only two runs which continued the dismal display of batting he has shown in recent times.
Virat Kohli now! Kyle Jamieson has his second as Ross Taylor gets into the game at 1st slip. Kohli goes for 2. India 3 down now. LIVE scoring | https://t.co/vWdNIMMIwd #NZvIND pic.twitter.com/eE6hMsLGnu
— BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) February 20, 2020
In his more than an 11-year-old international career, there have been only two other phases where Kohli has failed to score a hundred in more than 19 innings. The 1st bad phase of Kohli’s career spanned from February to September 2011 when he failed to hit a hundred in 24 consecutive innings.
During this period, Kohli’s overall batting average dipped sharply from 48 before the 2011 World Cup to 39 in a space of seven months.
In 2014, Kohli endured another worst period with the bat in international cricket when he failed to score a century for 25 successive innings from February to October. This included the horror England tour where he could score only 134 runs in five Tests.