IND vs SA / Test Series Head coach Rahul Dravid Team India test captain Virat Kohli

IND vs SA | Team India's Test captain Virat Kohli has not scored a single century since November 2019. Since Virat made his international debut, this is the first time that he has not scored a century with his bat for two consecutive years, but head coach Rahul Dravid is not too worried about it. Dravid predicted that Virat is on the verge of changing his batting form. He averages 26.08 without a century in 14 Tests since the start of 2020. His two innings in the first Test at Centurion continued that wait. After a solid start, he got out on a whim for tampering with the outside ball.

Dravid said, 'Even though he batted well and could not convert those starts into big scores, I think good scores are going to come from his bat. Seeing him in the group, how relaxed he is doing everything, how calm he is and how he is preparing and how he is involved in all this. It may not happen in the next match, I hope it will happen in the next match, but I think once we pick up the momentum with someone like him, we are going to see big scores. I think in spite of the noise around him in the last two weeks, he held his own and led Indian cricket very well.

Cheteshwar Pujara has an average of 26.21 since the beginning of 2020 and has scored only seven half-centuries during this period. When Dravid was asked about Pujara's form, he said that sometimes batsmen bat well in difficult situations without scoring big scores. Dravid said, 'I think he is doing his best, and at times, of course he would like to score more runs. He has achieved a lot of success in his 10-year Test cricket career, so he knows the heights he has reached and the kind of success he has achieved.