You cannot say that Virat Kohli got out because Gautam didn't resolve his issues: Aakash Chopra

Former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra believes Gautam Gambhir shouldn't be blamed for Virat Kohli's chronic weakness to deliveries outside the off-stump. Chopra feels the team management have been unnecessarily targeted for an issue that has been with Kohli for a long time. 

Despite a sensational hundred in Perth, Kohli could only score 90 more runs in the series and was dismissed eight times caught in the slip cordon. Former Indian cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar and Sanjay Manjrekar asked for accountability from Gautam Gambhir and the team management for not ironing out Kohli's flaws.

However, Aakash Chopra defended Gambhir by saying that Kohli's flaw has been there for a while and has resurfaced.

“When you have used the word chronic or you are seeing a problem that doesn't exist only today in isolation, which was probably there earlier, went missing for some time, and has returned, can you blame the coaching department that has been there with this team for only the last six months? You cannot say that Virat Kohli got out because Gautam didn't resolve his issues," he said on his YouTube channel.

Ask for accountability from previous coaching staffs as well: Aakash Chopra

Aakash Chopra claimed that even the previous coaching staff under Rahul Dravid should be questioned for not being able to correct Virat Kohli's flaws outside the off-stump. He felt that such flaws cannot be formed in a brief period of six months and if the current management is questioned, the previous management also needed to be questioned.

"I heard someone saying - 'I am done talking about these players. I want accountability from the coaching staff because these are chronic problems.' I would say, then ask for it not from this coaching staff but the previous one because that coaching staff remained for long and they had an opportunity to correct these shortcomings," he opined.

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