Border-Gavaskar Trophy: When Virat Kohli’s ‘Federer’ remark left Nathan Lyon bemused | Cricket Information

Nathan Lyon and Virat Kohli. (AFP Picture by Brenton Edwards/by way of Getty Photographs)

NEW DELHI: Sledging and thoughts video games have been an integral a part of Australian cricket folklore virtually ever since they began enjoying the sport.
And it is also a identified incontrovertible fact that the Aussies have a tendency to go away nice gamers alone and check out to not sledge as that makes nice cricketers solely extra decided to attain large towards them.
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Virat Kohli is a kind of gamers and through the years he has made certain to attain large towards the Aussies at any time when he has been sledged.
Forward of the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy collection, which begins in Perth on November 22, Australian spinner Nathan Lyon recalled the same battle with Virat in the course of the 2014Test on the Adelaide Oval.
In a video shared by Cricket Australia on their official X deal with, Lyon says, “The one battle that comes out to me is the 2014 Check at Adelaide Oval the place he (Kohli) bought tons of in each innings. I used to be bowling to him and he was batting that simply. He’d come right down to the non-striker’s finish and simply say ‘Federer’. And I used to be like ‘Oh, okay, what’s this?’ He saved doing it, saved doing it each time. Each time he’d come down there, he was like ‘Federer, Federer‘. And I mentioned ‘Mate, I do not know if I am unsuitable, however are we enjoying the unsuitable sport for those who assume you are Roger Federer.’ And he goes ‘Nah, nah, I’ve bought an exquisite forehand’. I am identical to ‘Ah, okay.’ You are an honest participant when you’ll be able to simply sit there and try this mid-innings.”

In his first Check as India captain, Virat Kohli scored 115 and 141 in each the innings, however India fell wanting the Aussie goal and misplaced the Check by simply 48 runs.
Having scored six tons of from 13 Check matches and averaging 54.08, Kohli has traditionally dominated red-ball cricket in Australia however he has solely averaged 22.72 in his six Check matches this season.
After scoring simply 91 runs in India’s stunning 0-3 collection loss to New Zealand at residence earlier this month, Kohli enters his seventh tour to Australia.
The 36-year-old Kohli has scored only one fifty this yr – 70 towards New Zealand within the second innings of the primary Check at Bengaluru, whereas his final Check century got here in July 2023 towards the West Indies.

With India set to play the primary Check in Perth from November 22, Kohli can hope to strike type from the phrase go.
Kohli has until now performed two Checks in Perth – one on the WACA during which he scored 44 and 75 within the two innings in January 2012 which Australia received by an innings and 37 runs.
The second Check that Kohli performed in Perth was as captain in 2018 and he grew to become the primary batsman to attain a Check hundred on the new Perth stadium as he scored his twenty fifth Check century on the age of 30.
India have to win 4 Checks in Australia to immediately qualify for the World Check Championships remaining that’s scheduled to be held at Lord’s in June 2025.