 "Virat Kohli experiences alarming dip in batting average as struggles continue in Test cricket")
Virat Kohli’s struggle for runs has seen his batting average in Test cricket plummet to an eight-year low, raising more questions about his future with the Indian cricket team in the longer format. In 17 innings so far in 2024, Kohli has only scored 376 runs including one hundred at an average of 25.06.
In fact, Kohli has only scored 1964 runs in 37 Tests since the start of 2020 at an average of 31.67 and his prolonged poor form has now started to impact his career stats big time.
After scoring just three runs in the first innings of the Brisbane Test against Australia at The Gabba, Kohli’s career batting average in Test cricket dropped to 47.49, the lowest for the former India captain since he was standing at a batting average of 47.50 during the 2016 Test series at home against England.
This is a massive dip from his career-high batting average of 55.10 which he achieved in 2019.
Kohli experiences alarming dip in batting average
It was in the England series in 2016 when Kohli achieved a batting average of 50 for the first time in Test cricket after he made a double hundred. He stayed in the 50s till 2022 when for the first time in six years Kohli went below the 50 mark after the day-night Test against Sri Lanka which was played in March in Bengaluru.
And now the 36-year-old Kohli’s batting average is under what it was in 2016.
Overall, Kohli has scored 126 runs in five innings on the 2024-25 Australian tour but besides the unbeaten hundred in Perth , he has only managed low scores. In the Perth Test which India won by 295 runs, Kohli scored 5 and 100 not out in two innings respectively followed by 7 and 11 in the Adelaide Test. India lost the second Test at Adelaide by 10 wickets.
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