India head coach Rahul Dravid is back with the side after a short break after the T20 World Cup. The head coach has undertaken the tour of Bangladesh, and has set his eyes on the ODI World Cup 2023, set to be held in India. One of the biggest assests of the Indian team, Virat Kohli found his form back after an extended lean patch under Dravid, when he broke the shackles and scored a century against Afghanistan in the Asia Cup 2022.
Kohli continued his form in the T20 World Cup, coming out as the best batter from the Indian side. He scored an iconic 82* against Pakistan, an innings that will go down as one of the best T20 knocks played by him in his career. Dravid, who has been at the helm since late 2021, said that as a coach it is always tough as a coach to watch when a player at the stature of Virat Kohli is going through rough patch of form.
“It was not easy for him since the standards that he has set for himself,” Dravid told official broadcaster SonyLiv in an interview.
However, the former Indian batter said that it has been fantastic to watch Kohli train and prepare for his game.
“It has been a fantastic to watch Virat Kohli train and prepare over the last one and a half years,” Dravid further added.
Asked about how he dealt with Kohli’s form as a coach, Dravid said that it was important to realise that Kohli had not batted poorly at the time when half centuries and centuries were not coming.
“As coaches it is our job to look beyond those numbers and see that he had batted really well in that period of time,” the India head coach concluded.
