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India’s star player Virat Kohli has come under heavy criticism for his poor form. He made his debut in 2008 and since 2011 has faced world-class bowlers in all 3 types of Indian team with his tremendous batting skills. He has already proved himself to be a world-class batsman by becoming the 3rd batsman to score 70 centuries after Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.
But the last time he scored a century in 2019, he has been unable to score the next century in any type of cricket such as Test, ODI, T20 and IPL for the last 3 years. Also, he felt that the responsibility of captaincy in India and IPL series affected his batting and he gradually moved away from those positions and played as a free bird from last January, so he was expected to score a century soon.
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But former players like Ravi Shastri and Michael Vaughan have asked him to take 2-3 months off and return to form in IPL 2022. However, he replied that if he continued to play, he would be able to return to form on his own, but despite playing continuously, he was stumbling without seeing any progress. Especially in the recent Test against England at Birmingham, he was dismissed for a meager number of runs in 2 innings and was the main reason for India’s historic defeat.
However, the Indian team management, which has not removed him citing form till date, continues to give him chances because he has won a lot of matches. But Indian legend Kapil Dev, who has questioned how long he can stay in the team without scoring runs with only a big name, criticized that the time has come to fire Virat Kohli.
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Even so, Virat Kohli disappointed again when he got out for 1 in the 2nd T20I against England given that he has benched promising young players like Deepak Hooda. In this case, former Pakistan player Dinesh Kaneria has criticized Virat Kohli, who has not been able to score a hundred for 3 years, and has become a burden for the Indian team in recent times. Here is what he said about it:
“The young players do very well in the absence of big name players in the team. So the big players should understand that we are a burden to the team. Virat Kohli has gained weight now. So either he has to return to form before the T20 World Cup or give up his place.
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Where is that old Virat Kohli? What happened to him? A lot of people say that he will score big runs soon. But as I have already said, he should have opted out of the IPL.” Former players asked Virat Kohli to take a few months off from the recent IPL series as the exhaustion of OTOD runs was evident in his body and mind.
But he did not listen to it and rested in the recent South African T20 series without playing continuously and played only in the England series and then asked for rest in the series against the West Indies. Danish Kaneria said that this will cause confusion in the selection of the Indian team for the T20 World Cup.
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“He should have taken a break from the IPL. But he wasted that time. But now it’s time to form the Indian team for the T20 World Cup. He is now a burden to the team. “Be it India or Pakistan, if there are no big name players, it does not mean that the team will not perform well,” he said.
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