Virat Kohli leaves his spot after Gill injury, gamble after 8 yrs ends in disaster, dismissed for duck by young pacer

Rohit Sharma said that Virat Kohli took the responsibility of batting at No.3 in India’s opening Test against New Zealand at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Kohli returned to batting at three after eight years, but got out for a nine-ball duck after William O’Rourke accounted for his wicket.

Kohli doesn’t have the best of numbers at No.3, scoring only 97 runs from six matches at an average of 16.16 with a top score of 41 against Australia back in 2013 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.

Rohit said that India did not want to tinker with the batting positions of KL Rahul and Sarfaraz Khan, and hence, Kohli took the onus upon himself to promote himself up the order.