Nonetheless, the previous Indian skipper ended his century drought in worldwide cricket final 12 months by smashing his maiden T20I ton towards Afghanistan throughout an Asia Cup encounter. He adopted that up with three extra centuries within the ODIs towards Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Kohli additionally didn’t make an influence within the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy towards Australia as he scored simply 111 runs within the first three Checks.
However former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting does not appear to be perturbed by Kohli’s type and stated the ‘champion gamers at all times discover a manner’ to bounce again.

“For Kohli, I’ve stated that time and again, champion gamers at all times discover a manner. He is perhaps in a little bit of a drought for the time being, is perhaps not scoring runs which all of us count on him to attain however he’s a realist as properly. If you end up a batsman and your are struggling and never scoring runs, you might be fairly conscious of that your self. I’m not involved about this as a result of I’m assured he’ll bounce again,” Ponting stated on ICC Evaluation.
The rank-turners within the India-Australia Take a look at sequence turned the largest speaking level with batters struggling coming to the fore to deal with spin and that is the explanation why Ponting refused to evaluate any batter type within the sequence.
“I’m not anyone’s type within the sequence as a result of for batters it has been an absolute nightmare. Australia have completed a exceptional job by turning round these first two Take a look at matches and coming again to win the third. Everyone knows batting has been so extremely tough. And it has not been due to the flip, but additionally the uneven bounce which makes you lose belief within the wicket and if that occurs you might be guessing on a regular basis which makes batting actually tough,” he added.