Kohli's Troubles Against Leg-Spinners Continues

India captain Virat Kohli has been dismissed only four times in the seven limited-overs matches during England's ongoing tour of India. On three of those occasions, he has fallen to leg-spinner Ad

In 2017, Zampa had got Kohli once and in March 2019 as well the Aussie had dismissed him out twice.

Soon after Australia's visit to India in 2020, Kiwi leg-spinner Ish Sodhi dimissed Kohli with a googly on the tour of New Zealand. Although that was his only dismissal off a leg-spinner in the seven white-ball games he played on that tour, the way he was dismissed told a story.

Sodhi bowled a googly and Kohli played for a leg-break, meaning that he hadn't read the ball from the bowler's hand. Sodhi had got him out twice in 2016, twice in two matches within three days.

Interestingly, in T20 Internationals, Rashid, Sodhi and Zampa have got rid of Kohli twice, which is the most number of times a bowler has got the Indian master batsman. There are others, too, who have got him out twice.

Rashid has dismissed Kohli three times in seven One-day International matches.

In 2018 at Headingley, Leeds, Rashid produced one of the best deliveries bowled in ODI cricket to bowl Kohli when he was batting well at 71. The ball pitched outside the leg-stump and then went onto clip the off-stump. The expression on Kohli's face showed he was stunned.

Five days before that dismissal, Rashid had Kohli stumped off a beautifully flighted delivery at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.