Yeah i dont think its as black and white as this sub is making it out to be. Going by today’s performance, KLs approach is eerily similar to Kohli’s. And i dont think Kohli would’ve got as much hate for scoring the same number of runs.

In fact, when Kohli was batting i commented on the thread about how he’s sometimes too comfortable rotating the strike and cornering his partner into increasing the run rate. We got lucky that Patidar was able to break away today and Kohli decided to go for it too but that hasn’t always been the case.

Maybe with technically disciplined ODI/Test batsmen like KL & Kohli, this is the only way to go about it. Barring a few lucky days, a lot of their success depends on how well their partners soak in the pressure and take responsibility of the slogging while they take their time to build an innings leading up to the slog overs.

Unfortunately for KL, there was no Patidar to take responsibility and maybe its asking for too much to expect batsmen of their calibre to succeed in slogfests.