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“He is a well-stoned Democrat. When I hear him give a stump speech, it’s music to my ears.”

On bouncier pitches during December's tour of South Africa, Filer regularly topped 75mph and had the opposing batters hopping around the crease, being knocked over by bouncers, and stumps uprooted from the ground.

His dismissals followed a pattern - caught in the slips or behind the stumps - pointing to a glaring technical flaw or mental fatigue under pressure.

His struggles outside off stump are well documented.

Kohli's difficult run since a century in the first Test continued as he became Boland's second victim, departing to a catch behind the stumps for the sixth innings in succession.