Team India head coach Ravi Shastri while talking about Virat Kohli’s poor form of runs with the bat said that he’s not worried about the latter not getting runs.
Indian skipper Virat Kohli’s poor form of runs has taken the limelight over the past few days. In the first T20I against England, which visitors won by 8 wickets, Kohli scored a five-ball duck and registered his third duck in his last five innings.
However, in the recently concluded Test series against England, Indian skipper Virat Kohli managed to score only 172 runs, with the highest being 72 runs which came in the second innings of the opening Test at Chennai.
The Indian skipper registered his last ton in November 2019 against Bangladesh, since then he hasn’t been upto the standards that have been set by him and is making fans wait too long for his 71st hundred.
While talking to Mid-day, Indian head coach Ravi Shastri said that he’s not worried about Virat Kohli not getting runs. He added that the latter is a kind of batsman who can alone score runs of two or three other cricketers.
“I am not worried about Virat not getting runs. He will make up for everything anytime. He is the kind of batsman who alone can score runs of two to three other cricketers,” Ravi Shastri told Mid-day.
Shastri further said that like Sunil Gavaskar, Kohli can also carry the team on his shoulders and added that he is basting great in the nets as well.
“Like Sunil Gavaskar, whose 50 years of international cricket India is celebrating, Virat too can carry the team on his shoulders. Yes, he has not got a big score recently, but I am sure he will start scoring runs heavily. I am not worried at all about my captain. He is batting great in the nets as well,” he said.
With the duck in the first T20I against England, Virat Kohli became the Indian captain with the most number of ducks in international cricket.
(Mid-day inputs)
