For the second game in a row, Virat Kohli stepped out to bat with an uber aggressive mindset. After lofting David Willey over mid-wicket for four and straight back over his head for a six, he charged out once more and was caught at cover for a 6-ball 11. It followed his dismissal from Birmingham where he swung across the line to Richard Gleeson off just the third ball he faced.
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Rohit backs Kohli, endorses new batting philosophy
Virat Kohli has registered scores of 1 and 11 in the T20I series against England, a continuation of a long phase of low scores for the batter © Getty
In Birmingham, Kohli was in the middle of India's slide that saw them go from 61/1 at the start of the PowerPlay to 89/5 a few overs later. Here in Nottingham, Kohli's dismissal was part of a difficult PowerPlay that saw the team reduced to 31/3 inside five overs.
Rohit Sharma said that Kohli's high-risk approach, a departure from his more conservative style of T20 batting, was in line with the team's new blueprint for batting. Rohit confirmed that Kohli's intent was both a personal decision of the batter as well as one based on the team's needs and that his early dismissal both times were acceptable tradeoffs for
