Kohli offers no shot to Aussie spin again

For the second time in as many innings, the India captain has been dismissed by an Australia spinner without playing a shot.

Virat Kohli was out leg before wicket for 12 off 17 balls by off-spinner Nathan Lyon in the first half hour after lunch on day one of the second Test in Bengaluru.

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The India skipper misjudged a flat Lyon delivery and was trapped flush on his front pad with his hands raised above his head offering no stroke.

Kohli reviewed the decision, but once he saw the replay of the dismissal on the big screen of the M Chinnaswamy Stadium he began his journey back to the pavilion before ball tracking confirmed the ball would have hit the stumps.

"Look, it just has to be nerves," Brett Lee said on Star Sports India.

"There's only one reason for that, and that's pressure. Pressure created through Nathan Lyon and that's a judgemental error," added Matthew Hayden.

Kohli was out to left-arm spinner Stephen O'Keefe in the second innings of the first Test in Pune, opting to leave a straight one that uprooted his off-stump.

"It was a judgement error from my side," Kohli said after day three in Pune.

"I left the ball too early, I should've waited for the ball a little more.

"You can't say which ball is going to turn or which isn't.

"You've got to play the line and I certainly didn't do that. It was my fault."

Kohli, who entered the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in imperious form, now has scores of 0, 13 and 12 from three innings. He had been dismissed for a second-ball duck in the first innings of the Pune Test, having chase a full, wide delivery from Mitchell Starc.

"You want to compete against the best players in the world and Virat is one of the best batsmen that I have ever come across," Lyon said after play. "So, to be able to take his wicket today was exceptional, but we know this series is a massive series, a long series, and he's a world class batter.

"We expect him to bounce back. But yeah, he's obviously the head of the snake - if you want to put it in Dale Steyn's terms - and if you can take that one, hopefully the body will fall away, I think is what Dale said. So yeah, it is quite pleasing to take Virat's wicket."

The 27-year-old was Lyon's second victim of the day after the Australia struck on the stroke of lunch to remove first-drop Cheteshwar Pujara for 17.

On a pitch that has already showed signs of variable bounce, Pujara edged a Lyon delivery onto his thigh pad to provide short leg Peter Handscomb with the simplest of catches.

Earlier, Handscomb put down opener KL Rahul on 30, dropping a difficult chance to his left at silly mid-off.

Handscomb had hands of Velcro in Pune, taking three impressive catches in the first innings, but in Rahul's chance couldn't stick in Bengaluru after Kohli won the toss and elected to bat.