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Virat Kohli, the star cricketer from India, has scored a lot of runs and 70 centuries in all 3 types of Indian team since 2008. He has proved himself as a world class batsman by facing world class bowlers all over the world. What is causing him a problem now is that he has created a quality of his own by performing so brilliantly that he will hit a hundred if he enters the field from the very beginning.
Yes, he had last scored a century in 2019 and since then he has been struggling to score more than 100 innings in all types of cricket including Test, ODI, T20 and IPL for the last 3 years. As already mentioned, the belief that he will score a hundred by fielding is deeply embedded in everyone’s mind, even if he scores 40, 50, 70 runs intermittently, everyone considers him to be parm out.
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He also faced criticism for not being able to win the World Cup and the IPL trophy and felt that the pressure of captaincy affected his batting, so he gradually stepped away from those positions and started playing as a free bird from last January. So expected to score a century soon, he is batting worse than before in the IPL 2022 series, including 3 golden dugouts for the first time in history.
He tried hard to get rid of it and took hard trainings as if there was no luck. The exhaustion of running and running like no luck was visible in his game and body. So ex-players like Ravi Shastri, Wasim Jafar, Michael Vaughan asked to leave the IPL series immediately and rest for 2-3 months and return to form refreshed.
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But Virat Kohli replied that he can return to form if he plays, but despite playing continuously, he is struggling to see any change or improvement. However, as already mentioned, he has been resting intermittently without playing continuously, and his next rest in the West Indies ODI series has raised more questions and criticism.
Either take a break as Ravi Shastri said or play continuously as he himself said. Virat Kohli playing in one series without doing both and resting in the other will definitely not do any good. Because there’s a big difference between taking a few days off from playing and taking a break all the time. The reality is that it gives true rejuvenation. Examples include Ben Stokes and Glenn Maxwell.
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Well let’s see the list of matches that Virat Kohli has missed so far in the last 9 months:
1. Virat Kohli, who voluntarily stepped down as T20 captain following a league exit in the T20 World Cup in Dubai, was next rested for the 3-match T20 series against New Zealand at home.
2. In the subsequent 2-match Test series, he was rested for the first match in Kanpur and returned for the second match in Mumbai.
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3. He was rested for the 2 consecutive 3-match T20 series against West Indies and Sri Lanka at home last February.
4. But he was fully featured in the IPL 2022 series and was next rested for the 5-match T20I series against South Africa at home.
3. He was rested due to a minor injury in the first match of the ongoing 3-match ODI series against England. Moreover, he was also rested in the 2nd Test of the 3-match Test series in South Africa last January due to a minor injury.
4. Currently playing just 6 matches in the tour of England, he has been completely rested for the upcoming 3 ODI and 5 T20I series in West Indies.
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In total, Virat Kohli, who was rested in 23 matches out of 25 matches, 19 T20 matches, 4 ODIs, 2 Test matches in 9 months from last November to next August, was rested for 2 matches due to injury.
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