Virat Kohli survives falling for a first ball duck in Sydney – Watch | Cricket News – Newz9

NEW DELHI: India misplaced openers KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal early after captain Jasprit Bumrah received the toss and opted to bat towards Australia in overcast circumstances and a grassy pitch on the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday.
Mitchell Starc dismissed KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal fell to Scott Boland.
Virat Kohli arrived on the crease with India at 17/2 in 7.4 overs with the Aussies charged up.
With Kohli getting dismissed caught behind the stumps all through the continued Border-Gavaskar Trophythe Aussies had set the entice with a full slip cordon in place.
Boland bowled again a size supply that nipped away, took the sting as Kohli pushed at it.
The ball went down and Steve Smith at second slip thought he scooped it up however the ball had simply grazed the turf earlier than being taken by Marnus Labuschagne at gully.
The Aussies have been delirious once they claimed it. But the third umpire took his time and signaled it not out and Kohli survived falling for a first ball duck.

But former Australian opener and coach Justin Langer maintained that Kohli was out.
7Cricket shared a put up on ball up, it was good what he did. He had his fingers below the ball, he flicked it up intentionally and in my opinion that is out.”

Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting also shared his views on the decision, “As far as I used to be involved, if (the ball) had’ve come out of (Smith’s) hand, he would not have been capable of scoop it up. That’s what I’m saying, I believe his fingers are clearly beneath the ball … look the place his pointer determine is there, it is nonetheless beneath the ball.”

Kohli, from 10 Tests and 19 innings in 2024, scored 417 runs at a median of 24.52 with 100 and one fifty.
That century by Virat was the unbeaten 100 he scored in the first Test in Perth – the match that India received by 295 runs.