Virat Kohl’s wait for the 71st hundred lasted 3 years. It became a talking point of the cricketing world every time he came in to bat. When is the 71st coming? It was a period when Virat Kohli faced the second lowest phase of his career.
The first one was the 2014 England tour. In a recent conversation with Robin Uthappa on Jio Cinema during IPL 2023, Virat revealed that it wasn’t only MS Dhoni who reached out to him during his tough phase. Robin Uthappa also reached out to Virat during his tough times. Virat Kohli is back to his normal self scoring consistently for India and in IPL as well.
“Everyone was like we observe this and this is the solution for it. I couldn’t get the point across that whatever shortcoming is there is because of this (pointing towards his head). When you are not right mentally, you are all over the place. There were no technical issues because I have done this for 15 years.”
“It can’t be that all went to a standstill and the technical issues pop out right now. When I came back fresh and started hitting the ball again and people were like ‘oh you made some serious changes’. But I didn’t pick up the bat for six weeks.” Virat Kohli said.
Robin Uthappa’s Message to Virat Kohli
Uthappa texted Virat ‘Are you okay? Just wanted to check in on you.’ Virat Kohli feels this message was very important because everyone was pointing out the solutions and not trying to understand what space he was in.
“The only person who, apart from my childhood coach and family, genuinely reached out to me has been MS Dhoni. He (Dhoni) reached out to me and you can rarely get in touch with him. If I call him on any random day, 99 per cent he will not pick up (the phone), because he just does not look at the phone.
So, for him to reach out to me, twice it has happened now, and one of the things that he’d mentioned in the message while reaching out to me was that: ‘when you are expected to be strong and looked at as a strong individual, people forget to ask how are you doing?’,” Kohli had said.
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