'I Won't Accept It': Former Indian Cricketer Rubbishes Talks Around Virat Kohli's Poor Form After NZ Debacle

Former Indian cricketer Krishnamachari Srikkanth has said that it is too early to discuss Virat Kohli's exemption from India's Test batting lineup and he is not accepting such criticism of India's star batter. Kohli has hit a low point in his Test career and scored just 250 runs in the last six Tests at an average of 22.72 and hit just one fifty, in the second innings of the first Test against New Zealand in Bengaluru. Kohli has scored 2042 runs in 25 Tests at an average of 47.48, including eight hundreds against Australia. Six of those eight centuries have been scored in Australia and although he looks out of form, he is still primed to pull off something extraordinary Down Under. Srikkanth has said that he believes that Kohli will make a comeback in Australia, his favourite place to score runs and it's way too early to write him off. "In my opinion, Virat Kohli will start doing in Australia (comeback). His area is Australia. I think that's his strength. I think it's too early to talk like this about Virat Kohli (moving on from him). I won't accept it. Virat Kohli has got a lot of time," Srikkanth said while speaking on his YouTube channel.

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Kohli hasn't been at his best this year with the bat in white-ball formats, too; he has not been able to create any impact apart from the T20 World Cup final innings. In the recent home Test season, Kohli could just put in 192 runs in 10 knocks, averaging 21.33, with just one half-century and the best score of 70.Under Kohli's captaincy, India created history Down Under, by winning their first Test series in Australia. All eyes will be on him this season as well as he looks for redemption in his Test career.