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After returning from the West Indies tour, India will next travel to Zimbabwe for a 3-match ODI series. The Indian team led by KL Rahul has left for the country which was announced to participate in this series which will be held in the capital Harare on August 18, 20 and 22. As usual, the senior players were rested and a lot of young players were given a chance against the underdogs Zimbabwe. However, the promising star Virat Kohli, who is coming off a modest run of form after last 2019, has been rested for this Zimbabwe series which has drawn a lot of criticism.
Due to his amazing batting skills, he has scored 23000+ runs and 70 centuries as a run machine in 3 types of Indian team for the past 10 years and has been captaining India and IPL series since 2017. He has performed tremendously in all those jobs and the workload caused by doing those jobs has now caused a mega decline for 3 years now. So impatient former players like Kapil Dev criticized him for dropping him from the team for how many days he could keep a big name and not perform well.
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But Virat Kohli is sure to bounce back from this bad moment as many legendary players in history have never scored 70 centuries and many overseas legends like Ricky Ponting, Brian Lara, Kevin Pietersen are backing him. Joining the line-up, Zimbabwe’s promising star Sikandar Raza has responded to criticism by saying that he will return to form if everyone keeps quiet as many people here are not qualified to criticize a player of quality like Virat Kohli.
After his impressive performance in the recent Bangladesh ODI and T20I series and playing a key role in winning the Man of the Series award for Zimbabwe to win the trophy, he is now gearing up to play in the ODI series against India next. Here’s what he said in a recent YouTube show about the criticism leveled at Virat Kohli by golf’s Tiger Woods, who in that context is as standard as boxing’s Muhammad Ali.
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“Virat Kohli is a versatile player who can play all forms of cricket. I would like to add him to the list of players who changed the game like Tiger Woods, Muhammad Ali. Because they did things that no one thought possible and made everyone follow. Cricket is a fitness sport. In that way Virat Kohli has brought the fitness aspect in cricket to a new standard so that the next generation of players will follow it. In fact, everyone should appreciate him for that.”
“I don’t think I am experienced enough to advise someone like him who has accumulated more than 16-20000 runs in this place. What can I say to him? I’m not going to say anything. So everyone don’t criticize Virat Kohli and leave him alone. If you do that, he will be back to his peak form.”
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According to him, in today’s modern cricket, fitness is seen as essential to perform well for long periods without injury. In that way, Virat Kohli, who based on that aspect after taking over as the captain in Indian cricket, was strict about the fact that everyone playing in the Indian team should be fully fit. It is noteworthy that due to this, a place in today’s Indian team can only be found if you have good fitness.
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