ICC clause rubbishes ball tampering allegations against Kohli

Virat Kohli had a number of things to celebrate about. In fact, when saddled with responsibility, his willow only plundered more runs.

If India’s top order survive England’s opening assault, they will expect to bat long into the second day. Full-time Test captaincy came to him in that Australia series itself, when the incumbent skipper MS Dhoni brought an abrupt end to his Test career after the third match.

Duckett looks set to be taken out of the action after scores of five and nought in his fourth Test, in which it became clear his technique is vulnerable to India’s spinners on sub-continental pitches. The Kohli footage is from the second innings of the Rajkot Test, which began on November 9.

Such has been the storyline for many home series for India, stretching back to the one against South Africa past year.

Yet that shouldn’t take anything away from the Indians, who under captain Virat Kohli, have made the country a fortress for their success.

There are no other changes, India picking just two specialist openers in Murali Vijay and KL Rahul in Gambhir’s absence.

The English showed promise, yet they could not grit their way through the remaining time, like what the South Africans did last time around in Delhi.

When asked that bowlers always have niggles and if he felt disappointed to miss you given the way he bowled in the first game, Woakes said, “Yeah, I suppose you always want to play, you don’t want to miss any Test match, particularly when you feel you are in decent form and decent nick”. Now with Indian team registering a victory in the first global test match, Vishakapatnam has continued to be lucky city for our team.

“I never had a forward press but he told me you should go forward to a fast bowler like you would defend a spinner”. The responsibility obviously increases.

The ICC said in a release, “Kohli is now top-ranked in Twenty20 Internationals and has also held the top position in One-Day Internationals, but has never moved above 10th place in Tests”. Where were the big daddy hundreds?

England’s batting has ebbed and flowed with only Cook and Ben Stokes showing real consistency, however there have been flashes of brilliance from Joe Root, Moeen Ali and 19-year-old Haseeb Hameed. His last three hundreds have been 167 against England in Vizag, 211 versus New Zealand in Indore and 200 against West Indies in Antigua.

There is a feast of global cricket in Cardiff next June, with four ICC Champions Trophy fixtures featuriing England, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well as the return of South Africa for the third and final NatWest worldwide T20 against England.