Veteran India batter Virat Kohli is training hard in the nets before the 3rd Test vs Australia. And, former India player Harbhajan Singh opened up on the critical changes he made. However, Virat Kohli was working on his back-foot game as he prepared for the Brisbane Test. Meanwhile, the Gabba pitch will also have a lot of pace and bounce to offer and the batters need to have a strong back-foot game to counter attack as well.

Virat Kohli scored a hundred in the first Test

Harbhajan Singh, who has played with Kohli, said that he has been a front-foot batter but he is working on his back-foot game to handle the bounce in the Gabba as well.

"Yes, whatever little I have seen him batting in the nets today. I have played a lot of crcket with him. He is a front foot player. Knowing the bounce on Indian soil, you have to be on your front foot. The people who have played here, the likes of Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh, Langer, Hayden. They were good back foot players, because of the bounce. It is the kind of bounce you get in Australia, you have to be good player of bounce. You need to have a good backfoot game. That's what he was practising," Harbhajan tols Star Sports.

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"He was playig a lot of deliveries on the backfoot" - Harbhajan Singh on Virat Kohli

However, Harbhajan Singh is hoping for Virat Kohli to bounce back in the 3rd Test after a failure at one of his favourite grounds in Adelaide. Notably, Kohli smashed a hundred in the first Test as well.

"Specifically I have noticed today. He was playig a lot of deliveries on the backfoot. He was going forward for the fuller ball but those balls which were slightly shorter than the length of full ball, he was either leaving or trying to play them. The ball from the back foot, he knows that Gabba will be a different wicket where he will get to face a lot of bounce and pace and that back foot game needs to be included in his game. Good to see him working on the game. I am sure, knowing Virat Kohli, we have seen him making a comeback after every setback," he concluded.