The environment within the team is amazing: Virat Kohli
Updated On: 06 September, 2022 07:35 AM IST | Dubai | R Kaushik
As Virat Kohli finds his mojo after a classy 60 in a losing cause against Pakistan, the ex-India skipper says he never paid heed to external criticism; owes performances to himself and team
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Virat Kohli celebrates his half-century against Pakistan during their Asia Cup Super 4 clash at Dubai on Sunday. Pic/PTI
Virat Kohli’s decision to sit out the white-ball series against West Indies was dissected threadbare, especially given that he hadn’t had the greatest of runs with the bat in the period leading up to the three One-Day Internationals and five Twenty20 Internationals in the Caribbean and the USA in July-August.
Since his return to action after a break during which he didn’t pick up a bat for a month—his own revelation—the former skipper has gradually wended his way back into form. A patchy 35 in the first game of the Asia Cup has been followed by successive half-centuries, each more fluent than the other, and glimpses of vintage Kohli (44-ball 60) were on view on Sunday night during the five-wicket defeat to Pakistan. To some, that might have meant a point scored against those questioning his commitment, if not his pedigree. But Kohli doesn’t fall into that category. He believes he owes performances to himself and those in the cocoon of the team environment, and no one else beyond this ambit.
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