Former India captain Virat Kohli believes the last two and a half years have taught him a lot. From stepping down as a captain across all formats to ending an almost three year drought of a triple figure score, 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,” Kohli told ICC ahead of the 2023 ODI World Cup. “I have had many suggestions, lots of advice has come my way; people were telling me I was doing this wrong, that wrong.”
On what helped him turn the tide with the bat, Kohli elaborated, “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.”
Since scoring his century against Afghanistan during last year’s T20 Asia Cup – which was his first since November 2019 – Kohli has been the fifth highest run getter in international cricket, 1769 from 41 innings.
