KOHLI’S LEAN PATCH

For all the talk that Virat Kohli might preserve his best against Australia, he came to an unimaginable standstill with some nightmarish dismissals. Shouldering arms to Steve O’Keefe on an unpredictable but turning pitch in Pune was probably the lowest point of Kohli’s batting this series. Scores of 0, 13, 12, 15 and 6 tells the entire story.