India’s star batter Virat Kohli has come under scrutiny for his series of low scores in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia.

Apart from his second innings hundred (100) in the first Test, Kohli has registered paltry scores of 5, 7, 11 and 3 so far. The pattern of his dismissals is the biggest cause of concern.

The age-old problem of fishing outside the off stump has led to Kohli’s downfall. The likes of Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland exposed his weakness in Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane.

Ahead of the Boxing Day Test at MCG, batting legend Sunil Gavaskar has offered an important piece of advice to Virat Kohli, saying that the latter needs to watch his own videos where he couldn't stop scoring tons

"Look, he's scored thousands of runs through that extra-cover drive. It's something that is probably the best shot in the world today, the Virat Kohli extra-cover drive. Not so much the cover-drive, but the one that goes between mid-off and extra-cover. That's a wonderful shot to see. That's a full-face-of-the-bat shot. And because he gets so many runs from that shot, he's tempted to go for that because that's a very productive shot for him. Maybe that is the reason why he is looking to play over there and gets out. If you see, it's not that he has opened the face of the bat. It's not that he is looking to play to the covers. If that was happening, then you could say, hey, don't play towards cover. But it's a shot that has got him thousands of runs. Only this time, maybe the late movement is getting him out," Gavaskar told Hindustan Times.

When asked what Kohli should do to avoid getting out in the same manner again, Gavaskar replied: "That's up to him. It is really up to him, what he does."

"But you don't score X thousand runs in international cricket and get that many hundreds unless you know how to approach and build a Test innings. I am sure this one week will give him a lot of time to look at his dismissals. More than the dismissals, I would like him and even Rohit (Sharma, the captain) to look at all the innings where they have scored brilliant centuries. That is what is going to make them start believing. I want that positivity to come into their thinking rather than them thinking only about getting out to deliveries that are on the off-stump," he further remarked.

With the BGT currently tied at 1-1, Virat Kohli would be keen to step up in the fourth and penultimate Test, starting on December 26.