India batting great Virat Kohli said that the past 2 and a half years were a huge learning lesson for him as a batter and as a person. He quit as captain in T20Is and Tests and was replaced in ODIs as the skipper last year.
He ended his terrible three-year century drought in 2022 with a ton against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup and since then, he has been back to his old self of scoring runs for fun. Kohli believes he’s undergone major changes and that he’s not the same player as he was once before.
“Those angry celebrations are a thing of the past. I have had many suggestions, and lots of advice has come my way; people were telling me I was doing this wrong, that wrong. I picked out all the videos from the best time I had, same initial movement, same approach towards the ball and it was just what was happening inside my head, I wasn’t able to explain it to anyone,” Kohli told ICC.
Since his T20I ton in 2022, Kohli has been the fifth-highest run-getter in international cricket, with 1769 from 41 innings. He is also one of the two 2011 World Cup winners along with R Ashwin, who will play for India in the 2023 World Cup.
He will be in action against England on Saturday, September 30 as India plays its first warm-up games in Guwahati. They will then play the Netherlands in a second warm-up game in Thiruvananthapuram on October 3rd. India begins its World Cup 2023 campaign against Australia in Chennai on October 8.
