Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar recalls India's tour to Australia in 2011-12 when Virat Kohli had a terrible start in the Test series. Kohli was backed by then skipper MS Dhoni and he went on to succeed with the bat.

Kohli went on to score his first Test hundred on the tour. He was struggling with scores of 11,0, 23, and 9 in the first two matches. But Dhoni continued with him and the youngster paid back with 44 and 75 in the third Test, followed by 116 and 22 in the last match.

“Virat Kohli is Virat Kohli. He always finds ways to score runs,” Manjrekar said. “The hundred that he scored in the 2011/12 series, India lost it 0-4. They’d lost to England 0-4. And I think that was the only century scored by an Indian in that series.

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"He was a young man who actually was on the verge of getting dropped after Sydney. Dhoni backed him; he played in Perth scored a 70 and then he got that hundred.”, said Manjrekar while speaking on the Sony Sports Network.

Kohli has played three Test matches at Adelaide Oval and he has scored three hundred there. He couldn't get one in 2018 and all eyes will be on him when India plays Australia at the same venue on December 17.

“Now at Adelaide, a lot of Indian batsmen have got runs. It’s a pitch closer to home. It’s got pace but the bouncer comes around this high (Pointing to his chest). It’s like an Indian pitch, but because it’s day/night and there’s going to be the pink ball, that changes things completely.

"The thing with Virat Kohli is that later, in 2014/15, he hit four hundreds,” Manjrekar added.

(Quotes from Sony Sports Networks)