Virat Kohli has come into the limelight but this time it is for his poor form in the ongoing T20 World Cup. The batting maestro has scored just 29 runs in 4 matches, including three single-digit scores, which has put him under the scanners. The star hitter looked sluggish and failed to get going in the powerplay in the group stage. Meanwhile, he also had a forgettable game in Super 8 where he scored 24 run-a-balls.
The team management took a bold decision to play Kohli as the tournament opener after his incredible show at the top in IPL 2024 where he won Orange Cap after amassing 741 runs. However, things did not go well for Kohli in the World T20, where he seemed to be in a hurry to break the chains and ended up getting out.
However, Kohli has now received endorsement from former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, who praised the Indian star’s strong mentality.
“If a powerful person doesn’t show his power, then that person gets hurt, and he should get hurt,” Navjot Singh Sidhu said about Kohli’s dip in form on Star Sports.
“I will only learn after I fall,” he added.
“Mujhe lagta hai Virat Kohli is mentally strong hain ke woh abhyaas se apni galtiyon pe haavi hona chaahte hain (I feel Kohli is so mentally strong that he wants to overcome his mistakes through training). He wants to overcome those (mistakes),” he said.
The 35-year-old showed a sign of brilliance with a six off Naveen-ul-Haq in the Afghanistan clash, which many compared to Kohli’s iconic six off Haris Rauf, which lit up the MCG in the 2022 edition of the T20 WC. .
Meanwhile, India head coach Vikram Rathour also spoke about Kohli’s poor run of form ahead of the clash against Bangladesh.
“I’m not happy. I would love for him to get going and score more runs,” Rathour said when asked about the team’s unbeaten run in the event without Kohli’s contribution.
“But yeah, it’s good when you get challenged sometimes. You know, the guys who sometimes don’t bat much in India, are the ones who scored scores today and our middle order came into play. So it was good to see,” he said.
