World T20: An analysis of India's batting performance based on Virat Kohli's five runs off nine balls
From the top down, all Indian batsmen have tried to call up strokes instantly, fearlessly and without hesitation.
Nine balls, three innings, and five runs. The statistics from Virat Kohli's World Cup reveal a sad story. If there is one Kohli tale that the icy, hard statistics fail to reveal, it is how he has been the driving force behind India's audacious new strategy during this T20 World Cup. Thus far, he has been unable to convert his enthusiastic approach into tangible results; yet, this is really a minor aspect of India's wider transition towards adopting a modern mindset without completely doing away with the traditional ways. The brave gamble made by captain Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid against Afghanistan in the Super Eight match on Thursday in Barbados would be put to the test.
The key point is how he batted those nine balls. Out of them, seven were
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