Healy has urged the pace trio of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc to try and put Kohli on the back-foot

Ian Healy advises Australias pace attack to target Virat Kohlis front pads and use short-pitched deliveries in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Former Australia wicketkeeper Ian Healy has told the likes of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc to target Virat Kohli's front pad often during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Healy also told the Aussie quicks to try and attack the body of the ...

Ian Healy suggested the Australian trio of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, and Mitchell Starc should target Virat Kohli's front foot and even resort to "body bashing" with short-pitched deliveries. Legendary Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy has called on his country's pace attack to use every tactic possible to dismiss Indian superstar Virat Kohli in the upcoming five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy,

Ian Healy says the first match-up he is looking at how the pace trio of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc will bowl to Virat Kohli at Perth.

Former Australian cricketer, Ian Healy, has shared a strategic approach for the upcoming India vs Australia first Test in Perth. Despite Virat Kohli 's recent underperformance in his last five Test matches,

Kohli has dominated previously in red-ball cricket in Australia, averaging 54.08 and scoring six centuries from 13 Tests. However, he averages just 22.72 in his six Test matches this year, and Healy thinks that the pace trio could test his forward defence with straighter impact balls that are designed to trap him in front LBW.

Healy, who played 119 Tests scoring nearly 4,500 runs, feels the Aussie quicks should not target Kohli's front foot far too often as the Indian stalwart might understand the trick.

With the opening Test in Perth just days away, Ravi Shastri called for Virat Kohli to revisit the fiery, antagonist role that made him a menace for Australian teams early in his career.