​Mohammad Kaif pinpoints reason for Virat Kohli’s LBW dismissal against Jofra Archer in England vs India 1st ODI originally appeared on Cricket News. Add Cricket News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.Virat Kohli was dismissed LBW by Jofra Archer in the first ODI against England.Kohli scored five runs off six balls at Edgbaston.Mohammad Kaif blamed a lack of continuous cricket for the dismissal.Kohli has now been LBW four times against seamers since January 2023.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementIndia’s chase of 259 at Edgbaston began in the worst possible fashion. Rohit Sharma laboured to 11 from 21 balls before edging Sam Curran to Harry Brook, and within an over the tourists had lost their second and far more valuable wicket.Virat Kohli, returning to international cricket for the first time since a hamstring injury sustained in the IPL 2026 final, lasted just six deliveries. Jofra Archer speared in a full ball and trapped him plumb in front, sending the veteran back for five.The dismissal has drawn scrutiny for a reason. Kohli has now been given out lbw to seamers four times since January 2023, an unusual pattern for a batter whose leg-side play has always been among the most reliable strengths of his game.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementIn terms of numbers, Kohli was dismissed only once in that manner between 2013 and 2023. His only LBW dismissal during that period being from the 2019 World Cup semifinal against Trent Boult.Speaking on Cricbuzz, host Tanya Purohit put that statistic directly to Mohammad Kaif, asking whether the recurrence of such dismissals against seam bowling now represents a genuine concern for the 37-year-old.Kaif immediately rejected the idea of a technical flaw, framing the problem as one of rhythm rather than method. “Look, he gets out very rarely, like he got out today. Yes, they do get out, but very rarely,” the former India batter said.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHe located the cause squarely in Kohli’s fractured schedule. “The reason he does is that when you don’t play matches consistently,” Kaif explained. “I can understand that after playing IPL, he will have a break, and his conditions are different. When you are not in rhythm continuously, then the preparation of your legs in the back and across movement takes some time.”Kaif then walked through the sequence itself, arguing Archer had constructed the wicket cleverly and that Kohli’s usual strength against that length became, briefly, his undoing.”If you look before that ball, Archer bowled a short ball to him. It was a bouncer. Then he bowled a full ball. So sometimes when you don’t play continuously, you don’t get the rhythm.””Then he hits a four on this ball. His favourite ball was on the legside,” Kaif added.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHe stressed how uncharacteristic the mode of dismissal remains. “LBWs are very rare. He always scores runs on that ball, uses wrists, the bottom hand comes into play,” Kaif said, before r