Former Indian opener and renowned commentator Aakash Chopra opened up on star batter Virat Kohli's dismissal in India's first innings of the second Test against New Zealand in Pune. Here, the former pinpointed Kohli's basic error in reading the length of the delivery. Kohli departed for just one run, and it continued India's poor condition in the game. Kohli was trying to play across the line when he was faced with Mitchell Santner; this is exactly the dismissal that eventually saw his downfall. Kohli's falling was particularly important in the context of this collapse, in which India went from 56/3 and then within a short time, folded for just 156. Chopra explains skill through length assessment in batting by describing this dismissal. "He definitely made a mistake in reading length. Drift was spoken about, but the second thing is that as soon as a spinner releases the ball, the first thing you need to judge is length because length decides whether you will play the ball forward or back," he said on Colors Cineplex. Also Read | 'We either take a selfish approach, make a spinning track, to win games,'- Shoaib Akhtar Criticizes PCB for Securing an Unfair Home Advantage What made this dismissal especially spectacular was Kohli's attempt to play the ball towards midwicket, a shot choice that Chopra found unusual given the batter's typical approach. "I think it was an error in judgment. Once the ball was released from the hand, whether it drifted in or not, that's a separate issue as to which line you played, but if it was a full toss, we are seeing Virat Kohli for the last 15 years, he doesn't close the face of his bat and hit full tosses over midwicket," Chopra added. "In fact, if you remember the first match against Bangladesh, it was a very full delivery like this from Mehidy Hasan Miraz, he went to play the flick, got an inside edge, and was given out lbw. It is a similar kind of dismissal as he missed such a full delivery," he further added. Reviewing his dismissal, it seemed that there was contact between Kohli's bat and the ground during the downswing which may have robbed him off the potential to reach the ball at all. Chopra rightly summed up his findings by stating that even Kohli would concede that a straighter face to the bat would have been the wiser course for the batsman at this stage.