Virat Kohli’s Struggle in 147-Run Chase: Gambhir’s Reaction Captures the Moment

Virat Kohli’s Struggle in 147-Run Chase: India need to win this Test to avoid a whitewash at home at Wankhede. Rohit gets off to a horror start as they lose 5 for 29 in 7 overs and the crowd is in stunned silence and the coaches are clueless.

Kohli goes for 1 as Ajaz gets his outside edge, Daryl Mitchell takes a good low catch in the slips and the Kiwis are jubilant. After Kohli’s dismissal and Pant walks in, Gambhir looks lost and worried as wickets fall in India’s top order and India are in trouble again in this series.

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India are on the verge of being whitewashed at home for the first time since 2000 when Hansie Cronje’s South African team beat India 2-0 in a 2 match series. Gambhir is only in his second Test series as head coach and is on the verge of achieving an unwanted record early in his career.

In the morning of India’s chase, Rohit was the first to go as he looked to hook Matt Henry and mistimed it straight up in the air. In the second of two soft dismissals, Shubman Gill was the next to go, shouldering arms to Ajaz Patel’s straight one that knocked his stumps over.

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India would have still felt okay with Kohli and Jaiswal at the crease but Kohli’s dismissal put the entire Wankhede crowd in stunned silence and Jaiswal was gone soon after, given LBW.

Sarfaraz was the next to go, on his second ball, as he swept a full toss straight to a boundary rider at square leg and was out in a bizarre fashion. Rishabh Pant is still there, joined by Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar and Ashwin the all-rounders and recognised batsmen still to come.

India have earlier lost the first two Tests against New Zealand in Bengaluru and Pune.

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