The Indian skipper Virat Kohli who is considered to be one of the best batsmen to have ever played the game, recently recalled the impact of different coaches made on his career while talking to RCB teammate AB de Villiers.

Virat first talked about former India coach Gary Kirsten as he said, “I can remember a few people, who sort of growing into my career (who had a lot of impact)… Gary (Kirsten) was obviously the first coach that I interacted with when I entered the Indian team and he gave me just positive advice.”

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“I used to have a problem of my front foot falling too far across and I used to speak to him about this and he would say your head’s good, you’re not getting hit on the pads. So why are worrying about the front foot? The positive feedback helped me always. It was just the way to look at things,” he added.

The Delhi-based batsman then remembered how former South Africa wicket-keeper batsman Mark Boucher as he said, “He (Boucher) was the one guy who told me in 2008 that when I come to India 4 years from now to do commentary and I don’t see you play for India I’d be the most disappointed man in the world.”

Then the right-hand batsman went on to reveal that Boucher used to take him to the nets and would bowl him short balls as the South African believed that in international cricket, one has to play the short ball well.

“He used to take me to the nets with a tennis ball racket and bowl bouncers and short balls. He told me, ‘if you wanna play international cricket, you’ll have to play the short ball, otherwise forget about it. So he had the vision, that was quite special,” he said.

(With Hindustan Times)