Virat Kohli reacts after Scott Boland dismisses him. | (Credits: X)
Team India’s batting star Virat Kohli’s wife Anushka Sharma’s reaction went viral on day two of the fifth and final Test against Australia in Sydney after his dismissal. The Bollywood actress looked flustered as the former Indian captain perished in familiar fashion, edging a delivery outside off-stump to the slip cordon.
The dismissal occurred in the 14th over of the innings as Boland was in the middle of an outstanding spell, having already dismissed India’s opening pair of KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal. While Kohli had hit the Victorian for a boundary in his previous over, he couldn’t resist poking at the delivery outside off-stump on this occasion, much like the first innings as Steve Smith took a comfortable catch.
Virat Kohli served as the stand-in captain when Jasprit Bumrah went off the ground
The 36-year-old, meanwhile, served as the stand-in captain when Jasprit Bumrah went off the SCG for a scan. The Indian bowlers did a brilliant job on day two to eke out a slender four-run lead by bowling Australia out for 181. Debutant all-rounder Beau Webster scored a fighting half-century and his fifty-run partnership with Steve Smith (33) was the highlight of their innings.
But the home side largely struggled on a bowling-friendly surface in Sydney. With India getting a slender four-run lead by Stumps, they finished ahead by 145 runs.
Both sides will be keen to win the Test, with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) World Test Championship (WTC) final place on the line.
