Bad feeling to run Virat Kohli out when he’s batting in such great fashion: Sanjay Manjrekar

The first Test match of the four-match Border Gavaskar trophy had so much on the very first day of play. India won the toss and decided that they would bat first, after losing a couple of wickets - the Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara was joined by the skipper Virat Kohli at the crease. The duo stitched a 68-run stand before the Saurashtra batsman was dismissed by Nathan Lyon.

India looked solid with 188 runs on the board, losing three wickets, captain and vice-captain out there in the middle looked like they were going to finish high. A slight miscommunication well might have caused Virat Kohli from not converting it into a potential 28th Test hundred. Rahane quickly realised what he had done and apologized to the captain.

Speaking at the show, Extraaa Innings on the Sony Sports Network Sanjay Manjrekar hailed Virat Kohli’s stance on the incident involving himself in a bizarre run-out. The 32-year-old soon-to-be-father scored 74 runs off 180 balls which included 8 boundaries.

“I was amazed that Virat Kohli kept his composure. He was set, he was beginning to accelerate. This is a guy who comes to Adelaide and gets hundreds. So he must have visualised by that time that there was another daddy hundred along the way. People look at this fame, fortune and the life he has, but I tell you he will spend tonight and tomorrow morning thinking what could have been if had it not happened. Completely his partner’s fault,” he said on the Extraaa Innings Show on the Sony Sports Network.

Ajinkya Rahane did the right thing in apologizing reckons Manjrekar

“You look at it again and again. There’s nothing there to suggest that maybe Virat Kohli shouldn’t have backed up so much. He was doing the right thing. Ajinkya Rahane did the right thing by apologising, maybe that’s what helped calm Kohli immediately. And he just put his head down and walked with a little bit of a disgust. Those are the painful moments that compensate for all the other perks you get from the game.”

A bad feeling to see the best batsman missing out on a great form

“It was evident on Ajinkya Rahane and the way he got out, that there was no run in it. He’s too close and all he did was take a step to his left. And Virat Kohli had no chance. Kohli doing the right thing, he had no business to look back. And Rahane knew what he had done. Bad feeling to run Virat Kohli out when he’s batting in such great fashion,” Manjrekar remarked.