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Melbourne Cricket Ground: Former India wicketkeeper-batter Surinder Khanna has called for benching out of form senior batters Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli following the 184-run loss against Australia in the fourth Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Monday.

India captain Rohit, who missed the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Perth, has been struggling on the tour to score runs. In the five innings across three Tests, he has only accumulated 31 runs. Not only that, the Indian captain has shuffled his batting position from middle order to top order and has gained nothing out of it.

On the other hand, Kohli has failed to replicate his Perth century knock in the following five innings. He had scores of 7, 11, 3, 36 and 5 in the last three Tests of the tour. His struggles outside the off-stump have been a major worry for the former captain. Despite showing good technique in the first innings of the Boxing Day Test, Kohli faltered to convert the stable start to a big score before making the same mistake in the second essay.