It took 59 matches and thousands of deliveries, bowled by close to 300 bowlers, to dismiss the 'GOAT' Virat Kohli for a duck in a World Cup, T20 and 50-over. The run-machine Virat Kohli left many Indian fans dissapointed when he was dismissed for a duck during their encounter against England in Lucknow on Sunday. Kohli faced nine balls and finally pressure showed as he gifted his wicket to his fellow RCB teammate, David Willey, without scoring a run. (Match Blog | Scorecard | Streaming | Full Coverage)
It was a short of a length delivery from Willy and Kohli couldn't get to the pitch of it and ended up miscuing the ball as it ended up in the hands of Ben Stokes. Coming into this fixture, Virat Kohli had a stellar form in this competition with one century and three fifties to his name.
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But according to on-air commentator Nasser Hussain, the wicket should be down to Dawid Malan. In the very same over, during the third delivery, Kohli played an elegant drive but it was stopped by Dawid Malan at full length who stopped it going to the boundary. And soon later, Kohli, ended up handing the wicket to England.
Earlier, England skipper Jos Buttler won the toss and elected to bowl first. The defending champions have lost four of their five matches and are unchanged from the last game against Sri Lanka. Whereas Team India have won all five of their contests so far in this tournament and remain the team to beat.
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Teams:
India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj
England (Playing XI): Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler(w/c), Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood
