Ex-India batter Sanjay Manjrekar slammed India's coaching staff amid the senior batter VIrat Kohli's struggles and his weakness around outside off stump. New Delhi Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar has slammed the Indian coaching staff over Virat Kohli’s struggles in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 against Australia. Manjrekar feels Kohli, who has been getting out in similar fashion repeatedly, needs outside help and India’s coaches should intervene to help the star batter fix his problems.
Kohli has struggled against the outside off ploy deployed by the Australian pacers and has continuously gotten out by poking deliveries on the sixth stump line. Despite having been warned multiple times about chasing deliveries bowled outside the off stump, Kohli has shown no signs of relating and has managed a string of low-key scores in the last two Tests. Recently when asked about Kohli’s performances in the pre-match presser, Indian skipper Rohit Sharma insisted the star batter is a ‘modern-day great’ and will find his way to get back among the runs.
However, Manjrekar disagreed with Rohit’s suggestion on Kohli and said the onus is no longer only on the star batter to improve but also on the ‘batting coach’ to intervene. “But that is not true where a modern-day great will find his own way out. If that was the case, then he would have.
That is why I’m no longer focussing on Kohli’s problem, but on the guy who was supposed to solve the problem, that is.
