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India’s promising star Virat Kohli has emerged as the backbone of the Indian batting department with his brilliant performances after the legendary Sachin Tendulkar and has emerged as the superstar player who has scored a lot of runs and 70 centuries in the last 10 years. Fans and ex-players who usually expect superstar players to always perform well and deliver victories in every match are often criticized in exchange for celebrating when they perform modestly. Virat Kohli, who was on his way to the top without exception, faced daily criticism worldwide for not scoring a century after 2019.
To get rid of it, he resigned from the captaincy and started playing as an ordinary player. After 2019, he struggled to return to form by scoring good runs such as 50 and 70 in the list of the top 5 Indian batsmen who scored the most runs in international cricket. However, the former Indian players who should have supported him, who had created such a golden standard that he would be expected to score a century if he performed tremendously in the early stages, criticized him severely for removing him from the team, forgetting that day will come at night.
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But foreign players like Ricky Ponting, who realized his charm, gave support that transcended criticism. Virat Kohli, who took all of them in his ears and continued to persevere with rigorous training, smashed the criticism that came at him day after day by hitting a hundred after 1020 days in the match against Afghanistan in the 2022 Asia Cup.
Also, he scored his first century in T20 cricket and was relieved to score 71, which he had not come close to for 3 years. Virat Kohli, who usually celebrates his hundreds aggressively, was expected to celebrate this century in response to the criticism he faced for 3 years. But on the contrary, he celebrated with a smile that he had never seen before and applauded the same former players who criticized him.
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It can be said that his face showed the joy of disproving the opinions of those who said that he was perfect rather than having to retaliate. Former legendary player and coach Ravi Shastri has said that Virat Kohli, who has put an end to criticism by scoring his 71st century, will now feel as if he has lost 5 kg in his body. He has worked with him as a coach since 2017 and spoke about it in a recent interview as follows.
“You said 1020 days. I was with him for 700 days. That’s too many days. If you play brilliantly and hit 70 hundreds and then languish in a bad position for two and a half years, everyone remembers that. He is human too. These criticisms would have eaten him up. Every morning after waking up, he would be constantly thinking about it.”
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“So today I think he would have lost 5 kilos. It’s not a body weight, but at least it’s a head weight. If you saw the last 40 runs of that innings, you would know that the old Virat Kohli came. Everything is back, including his trademark shot and confidence. It took a long time to come,” he said.
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Virat Kohli, who holds the record as the highest run-scoring batsman in the IPL series this year for the first time in history when he got 3 golden duck outs, the fatigue of adding OTOD runs was visible in body and soul. So former players like Ravi Shastri advised to rest for a few months and get back to form refreshed. But Virat Kohli, who replied that he can return to form if he continues to play, is truly commendable that he has succeeded in his theory and effort till the end.
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