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India’s promising star cricketer Virat Kohli at the age of 33 has proved himself as a world-class legend batsman by scoring 23000+ runs, 70 centuries and numerous victories in international cricket. In particular, with a batting average of almost 50 in 3 types of cricket, he has achieved the highest number of runs and centuries in the period from 2010 to 2019 and won the ICC Cricketer of the Decade Award in 2010. Moreover, he captained the Indian team in 3 types from 2014 to Test 2017, but despite not winning the World Cup, he achieved historic victories in foreign countries like Australia and England.
The workload caused by performing very well in all the responsibilities he took has caused a mega decline in his great career after 2019 without scoring the next century. He resigned from the captaincy duties to get away from it and started playing as a regular player, three golden ducks in the IPL 2022 series and a modest performance than expected in the recent tour of England, which led to impatient ex-players like Kapil Dev criticizing him for his removal.
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Despite all this, he has been scoring good runs like 40 and 70 in between and everyone has labeled him as “barm out” because he did not score a century. He has faced so much criticism that he has created a golden standard for himself by performing so well in the early days that he expected to hit a hundred just by entering the field. However, realizing his quality, foreigners like Kevin Pietersen are supporting many ex-players who are known as legends here and 70 centuries are unimaginable.
And many former overseas players like Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting, Mahila Jayawardene, Graeme Smith are giving Virat Kohli uncritical support. Joining the ranks, South African legend AB de Villiers has backed world class players like Virat Kohli saying that there is no need to criticize him as form is temporary but class is permanent.
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As he has played with Bengaluru in the IPL series for the past several years, he knows Virat Kohli’s character and ability very well, and he spoke about it in a recent interview as follows. “Virat Kohli is one of the best to ever play the game. Form is temporary only class is permanent. So there is no doubt that Virat Kohli has always been a world class player. And I am in constant touch with him. We are good friends. “I certainly don’t need to tell him the importance of working hard at this bad moment.”
It means that world class player Virat Kohli doesn’t need to be told how to get back to form, AB de Villiers said that it is normal for everyone to go through such a bad moment in life. He created a new evolution in cricket by spinning all four sides of the ground and introducing new shots and retired last year after scoring 4491 runs in 156 matches for the Bengaluru team.
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So he has got the RCB Hall of Fame award and is going to work with the Bengaluru team in the coming seasons. Apart from that, he will soon participate in a cricket training camp for poor children in India on behalf of a foreign company. He further spoke about this as follows.
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“I am proud to have worked with the Bangalore team for many years. I am still in touch with the team and it is a great honor to be inducted into the RCB Hall of Fame during the 2023 IPL series,” he said.
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