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In the 4-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test Series (Border Gavaskar Trophy Test Series AUS vs IND 2023) between India and Australia from February 9, Indian team’s batsman Virat Kohli is once again expected to perform well. Team India’s senior players are also expected to perform well in front of Australia along with captain Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, and Lokesh Rahul will have to play big innings in this series. After about 3 years, Virat Kohli broke the drought of the century in international cricket and got back to his original form. He silenced his critics by scoring centuries in ODIs and T20Is. Now he would definitely like to score a new century in Test cricket. He has not scored a century in Test cricket for almost 3 years. But, these days Virat Kohli is in form.
Let’s know Virat Kohli’s performance in Test cricket against Australia
Records show that Virat Kohli has had a stellar performance against Australia. Kohli has always batted well against Australia. He has scored 1682 runs in 20 Tests at an average of 48.05 against Australia. In Test cricket, his best performance in an innings of a Test match against Australia has been 169 runs. He made this score in the Melbourne Test on 26 December 2014. He has so far scored 7 centuries and 5 half-centuries against Australia.
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Currently, the Australian team is on a tour of India, in which it will play a 4-match Test series with India. At least 2 centuries are expected from Virat Kohli in this series.
According to cricket pundits, Kohli will have to play safe against the spinners. He must have learned from past mistakes. Under his strategy, the spinners will not risk playing the full length ball by going on the backfoot. Significantly, in the recent Test series against Bangladesh and New Zealand, he was seen struggling a lot while playing spin bowlers.