The first image in 2025 for Virat and his fans was him helplessly nicking an outside off-stump delivery by Scott Boland to Steve Smith in slips as he concluded a disastrous Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT), slapping his thigh and cussing himself for time and again falling to the 'corridor of uncertainty' again and again. But as the year comes down to a close, Virat is in midst of a lethal limited-overs purple patch, averaging 146 in six matches with three centuries and fifties since two successive ducks in Australia started his ODI return on a sour note.
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