Ollie Robinson brought ut the off-stump weakness of Virat Kohli yet again on day 1 of the Lord’s Test. He was well set on 42 and looked to score more when Robinson made him edge outside the off-stump. Kohli’s weakness was thus channelised by the England pacer which resulted in his wicket on the final session on day 1. KL Rahul’s unbeaten ton took India to 276/3.
After the end of the day’s play Ollie Robinson spoke about dismissing Virat Kohli and the plan behind it. He said that his plan was to bowl the fourth stump line to the Indian skipper.
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“Virat Kohli is probably my biggest wicket to date, so I was happy with that. It was a huge moment. The plan for him was always to bowl the fourth-fifth stump line, back of a length. Luckily the plan worked,” Robinson said at the end of the day’s play.
Virat Kohli’s Wicket Was A Huge Moment: Ollie Robinson
Before his dismissal, Kohli added a 117-run stand with KL Rahul who finished unbeaten on 127. Before Kohli, Rohit Sharma also added a 126-run stand for the first wicket with Rahul.
Robinson finished the first day with 1/47 from 23 overs. In his presser, he further said that the England bowlers bowled well and with some more luck could have bagged a few more wickets on the first day.
“There were probably 10-15 play-and-misses that I could count and, on another day, we might have had them two-three down early on,” Ollie Robinson said.
“We definitely looked at conditions and thought we could get a few early ones here. I think on another day it (wickets) might have happened. I felt we did bowl well. We toiled hard against their batters and to be fair, they played well. It’s just one of those days where they didn’t nick it to be honest,” he added.
Both teams will come out with different motives and aspirations on day 2. While England will look to bowl out India as early as possible, the visitors will look to ideally add 100 more runs to their overnight score.
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