Boland dismissed Kohli for the second time in three innings at the SCG today (January 3), the No.4 falling for 17 off 64 balls. It was another dismissal caught in the slips, Kohli poking outside off stump and getting a thick outside edge to debutant Beau Webster. Boland could have got Kohli via a similar dismissal for a duck, had the third umpire ruled that Steve Smith's hand had been fully under the ball when he parried a catch up to Marnus Labuschagne in the morning session.

Kohli has been dismissed nicking the ball behind every single time he's been out this series. The only one of his innings where that hasn't been the case was in his century during the India's second innings of the first Test in Perth, when he ended unbeaten/

Speaking to Fox Cricket after the close of play at the SCG Boland expanded the set plan to Kohli. "We've got pretty set plans on how we want to bowl to him [Kohli]," said Boland. "He sort of feels like he leaves a lot and then he wants to play the ball once he gets in. So once he gets in, we just want to switch our lines a little bit to fifth stump and it's working at the moment."

Boland dismissed Kohli for 36 after he had put on a 102-run stand with Yashasvi Jaiswal in the fourth Test at the SCG. It was Boland's first time bowling to Kohli in the series having replaced Josh Hazlewood in the side after the first three Tests.

Kohli has come under criticism from Sanjay Manjrekar for the predictable nature of his dismissals during the series. "It's time that he not only got runs but get out in a different fashion to show that he's overcome that problem," Manjrekar said on ESPNcricinfo. "I've never seen somebody with the kind of performance and impact that Virat Kohli's had on Test cricket have this kind of weakness. I don't think any other top-class batter has had this. There may have been a patch where somebody has got out repeatedly in a fashion but this has gone on for too long."

The latter part of the series has also been defined by Kohli's on-field clashes. At the MCG, he was booed by a 90,000-strong crowd after he shoulder-charged teenage debutant Sam Konstas. At the end of day one in Sydney, he again gave Konstas a send off after he was involved in an altercation with Jasprit Bumrah, which was following by Usman Khawaja's dismissal.

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