IND vs SA / Cape Town Test Batting coach Vikram Rathour was blown away by Virat Kohli innings

IND vs SA | Team India captain Virat Kohli scored 79 runs on the first day of the Cape Town Test match. Team India won the toss and batting first scored 223 runs. Batting coach Vikram Rathor praised captain Virat's innings. Rathore also told that what benefited Virat during this innings. Virat scored these runs by playing 201 balls and was the best scorer for Team India. At the end of the first day's play, Rathour said that Virat Kohli had the advantage of being more disciplined in the off-side game, while he described the performance of the first day of the third Test against South Africa as "very poor".

Kohli played a restrained half-century of 79 runs. But the Indian team was reduced to 223 runs in the first innings. Rathor said after the first day's play, 'There was no concern in the way Kohli was batting, I mean he was always batting well, as a batting coach this is what I thought, I was never worried about him not batting well, he was doing well in the nets, he looked good in the match too, he was getting off to a good start.

He said, 'It was a good opportunity, he was very disciplined, I agree he was doing very well with some luck also, he could have turned it into a big innings, but the way he played , I was happy with that.' However, he was not too happy with the batting performance of the entire team. “These are challenging situations where scoring runs is not easy. But you're right, we played really poorly. We could have added 50-60 more runs, that's what we were hoping for at least.