Virat Kohli and KS Bharat brought up half-century of their partnership in a slow session of Test cricket as India reached 362\/4 at lunch and still trail Australia by 118 runs on day four of the fourth Test at Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
On a slow, flat pitch, India made a total of 73 runs in 32 overs, with Kohli and Bharat unbeaten on 88 and 25 respectively, while losing the wicket of Ravindra Jadeja. It was a session where runs came at a slow pace, thanks to some disciplined bowling from Australia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Kohli, at his focused best, added only 29 runs to his overnight score, but is now in touching distance of a highly-awaited 28th Test century, with his last Test hundred coming against Bangladesh in November 2019 at Kolkata.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The session began with Jadeja cutting Todd Murphy uppishly against past slip for four. After taking another four through mid-off against Murphy, Jadeja mistimed to mid-on, but it went for a single.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But when he tried to repeat the shot in the final ball of the 107th over, which came a little quicker, Jadeja lofted straight into mid-on's hands off Murphy, ending a knock where he was patient for a major chunk of it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
With Shreyas Iyer sent for scans after complaining of lower back pain, KS Bharat came out to bat and got going with a superb slog-sweep going for six off Nathan Lyon.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
There was some turn available for Lyon, Murphy and Matthew Kuhnemann, as Australia operate with 7-2 leg-side fields, and spinners bowling tidy spells, like operating on off and outside off-stump lines, to dry up runs for Kohli and Bharat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But whenever there was a bad ball, it was hit for a boundary. Like, Bharat cracked a cut-off backfoot when Nathan Lyon dropped short. Post lunch, eyes will be on Kohli getting an elusive Test century, with a draw looming as a possible result of the match.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
There was some turn available for Lyon, Murphy and Matthew Kuhnemann, as Australia operate with 7-2 leg-side fields, and spinners bowling tidy spells, like operating on off and outside off-stump lines, to dry up runs for Kohli and Bharat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n